gable-ended
- a word derived from gable end.
Example Sentences
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Thus old, and antiquated, and gable-ended, was the tabernacle of Oh- Oh's soul.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
High over this dais, but resting upon independent supports beyond, a gable-ended roof sloped away to within a short distance of the ground.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
The villages are not large or numerous, but widely spread, consisting generally of conical grass huts, while others are gable-ended, after the coast-fashion—a small collection of ten or twenty comprising one village.
From The Discovery of the Source of the Nile by Speke, John Hanning
Entering that gable-ended Spouter-Inn, you found yourself in a wide, low, straggling entry with old-fashioned wainscots, reminding one of the bulwarks of some condemned old craft.
From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman
Old villages, farm-yards, groups of stacks, queer chimneys, churches, gable-ended cottages, Elizabethan mansion-houses, and other old English scenes, he depicts with evident enthusiasm.
From George Cruikshank by Thackeray, William Makepeace
