high-gabled

Outside the view is picture-book perfect: fields of deepest green scattered with high-gabled farmhouses against a backdrop of alpine peaks.

Taking It Slow 2007

In the middle of that close and densely populated region of Prague stands the old Jewish synagogue — the oldest place of worship belonging to the Jews in Europe, as they delight to tell you; and in a pinched-up, high-gabled house immediately behind the synagogue, at the corner of two streets, each so narrow as hardly to admit a vehicle, dwelt the Trendellsohns.

Nina Balatka 2004

He often stayed in the arama there, which had a hall with a high-gabled roof.

Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001

A half hour later, the beadle walked timidly into the council hall of the high-gabled Council House, and said, "Honored Counselor, will you graciously pardon me, but there is a man without who pressingly begs to be ushered into your presence."

After Long Years and Other Stories Agnes M. [Translator] Dunne

The quaint little hamlet literally slept on the river-bank; not a living creature was visible on the three grass-grown streets; many of the high-gabled brick houses, even at that date of the colony, were closed and vacant, their inmates having dropped from the quiet of this life into an even deeper sleep, and having been silently transferred to rest under the flat grass of the apple-orchards, according to the habit of the society.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

And, given a long line of forefathers equally thrifty, and an ancient high-gabled house where his ancestors first began collecting discarded refuse, the attic of necessity was a marvel of litter and decay, among which generations of pigeons had built nests and raised countless broods of squealing squabs.

The Maids of Paradise 1899

I went a short way by train, and descending at a wayside station, found a little field-path, that led me past an old, high-gabled, mullioned farmhouse, with all the pleasant litter of country life about it.

The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

It was a bright day in April when he and Gascoyne rode clattering out through Temple Bar, leaving behind them quaint old London town, its blank stone wall, its crooked, dirty streets, its high-gabled wooden houses, over which rose the sharp spire of St. Paul's, towering high into the golden air.

Men of Iron 1891

Malay; high-gabled, in Negara; of the Katingans; form of salutation on entering and leaving; dancing on completion of

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

Some distance from the water stood a lonely house, in genuine Malay style, with high-gabled roof.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886