gables

• “High chimneys climb both ends of the structure and three windows are set in gables on the second floor.”

  Literary Pilgrimages: George Orwell

• “It faces to the south, so that the little court between the gables is a veritable sun-trap, wherein grow magnolia and jessamine; while roses, Dutch honeysuckle, clematis and wistaria cover the whole front of the house and almost hide the mullioned windows.”

  The Drummer's Coat

• “And on the gables is a representation of the fight between the Lapithæ and the Centaurs at the marriage of Pirithous.”

  Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two

• “A gables is the triangle formed by a sloping roof.”

  News for WSLS 10

• “This required HUD to change the rules prohibiting any frills -- such as gables, cornices or materials more sumptuous than brick -- that might enhance the surroundings of welfare recipients at the expense of taxpayers.”

  Newsweek: Toppling Towers

• “One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity.”

  The Washington Post: Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles

• “J. Barry Griswell, the retired chairman and CEO of the Principal Financial Group, said business people and entrepreneurs have had two choices over the past year: Retreat to the basement for a "pity party" or go "up to the gables, look at a blue sky and say, 'What is the opportunity?”

  Entrepreneurs smell opportunity

• “It was a grand old house, with weathered shingles and brightly painted gables and nautical touches everywhere, and it had been there forever.”

  The Huffington Post: Rick Horowitz: After the Debt Deal: Drifting Away on Lake Parable

• “A house on the edge of the village of Compton Pauncefoot has gables and windows with a gothic look.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: South Somerset

• “Covered in pale yellow clapboard with white trim, it had a steep pyramid-shaped roof, gables protruding at different angles, and a turret at one corner.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

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