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People as good as the Walpoles lived in their gable-ended, moderate-sized mansions; and who was Sir Robert, to set them at so immense a distance?

From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 by Wharton, Philip

Clumsy, gable-ended houses, streets narrow and crooked, a wretched pavement—such is the city.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

A square Tudor building with two short, gable-ended wings, thrown out at right angles to its front; three friendly grey walls enclosing a little courtyard made golden all day long with sunshine from the south.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

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

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