What is "gables"

Usage examples of "gables".

I am going down the road to White Gables at once, and I daresay I shall be poking about there until midday.

The Manderson case, he told himself as he walked rapidly up the sloping road to White Gables, might turn out to be terribly simple.

He could see now, beyond a spacious lawn and shrubbery, the front of the two-storied house of dull-red brick, with the pair of great gables from which it had its name.

But you were planning to go to White Gables before the inquest, I think.

Manderson stood at the window of her sitting-room at White Gables gazing out upon a wavering landscape of fine rain and mist.

He walked to the door, closed it noiselessly as he went out, and in a few minutes was tramping through the rain out of sight of White Gables, going nowhere, seeing nothing, his soul shaken in the fierce effort to kill and trample the raving impulse that had seized him in the presence of her shame, that clamored to him to drag himself before her feet, to pray for pardon, to pour out wordshe knew not what words, but he knew that they had been straining at his lipsto wreck his self-respect for ever, and hopelessly defeat even the crazy purpose that had almost possessed him, by drowning her wretchedness in disgust, by babbling with the tongue of infatuation to a woman with a husband not yet buried, to a woman who loved another man.

This was to be held, I knew, at the hotel, and I reckoned upon having White Gables to myself so far as the principal inmates were concerned.

That she had read his manuscript and understood the suspicion indicated in his last question to her at White Gables was beyond the possibility of doubt.

Long before the lady had ended her story he had recognized the certainty of its truth, as from the first days of their renewed acquaintance he had doubted the story that his imagination had built up at White Gables, upon foundations that seemed so good to him.

I was already going fast toward White Gables, when I heard the sound of a shot in front of me, to the right.

As I drove back to White Gables my design took shape before me with a rapidity and ease that filled me with a wild excitement.

I went along the field path that runs behind White Gables, cutting off the great curve of the road, and came out on the road nearly opposite that gate that is just by the eighth hole on the golf-course.

Then I waited for him to go back to White Gables, as I did not want to meet him again.

The building was high, wide, made of brick, with numerous gables and chimneys.

Why did we settle that their house would be all gables and wiggles, and their garden all gamboge-coloured paths?