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  • I haven't, unfortunately, so that the world is full of places to which I want to return -- towns with the blinding white sun upon them; stone pines against the blue of the sky; corners of gables, all carved and painted with stags and scarlet flowers and crowstepped gables with the little saint at the top; and grey and pink palazzi and walled towns a mile or so back from the sea, on the Mediterranean, between Leghorn and Naples.

    The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

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  • See corbie step.

    the skyline of spires and crowstepped gables
    Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006), p. 142.

    a fissure crowstepping its way down between the brickwork above the porch
    Id., p. 326.

    June 5, 2016