gambrel-roofed

On any hazy Indian-summer afternoon, if you look down the wide, irregular main street, lined with its mighty elms and gambrel-roofed houses, all seems wrapped in a dim gray atmosphere of antiquity, like that surrounding Poe's House of Usher, only not ghostly as that is.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

We see the tinned roofs, spires and crosses of quaint churches, hospitals and convents, narrow streets winding among the rocks, black-robed priests and {2} sombre nuns, _habitans_ in homespun from the neighbouring villages, modest gambrel-roofed houses of the past crowded almost out of sight by obtrusive lofty structures of the present, the massive buildings of the famous seminary and university which bear the name of

Canada J. G. Bourinot

Where the stone church is now situated, there was formerly an old gambrel-roofed house, in which the Moore family lived during the

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

Holmes was brought up very simply in the old gambrel-roofed house, half parsonage and half farm house.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson

The drawing-room was eight-sided, and would have held, with some margin, the gambrel-roofed house, chimneys and all, in which I had spent my life.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

All our old houses -- the old gambrel-roofed Cambridge mansions, for instance -- are built with wrought nails, no doubt every one of them imported from England.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

Know, then, that the garret of this gambrel-roofed cottage had a projecting window on the seaward side, which opened into an immensely large old apple-tree, and was a look-out as leafy and secluded as a robin's nest.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 Various

As I opened the heavy front door of Mr. Wetherell's old gambrel-roofed house, and stepped out onto the large flat stone at the door-sill, every blade of grass was glistening with dew-drops; such a sweetness pervaded the air as one only realizes when the dew is on the grass and bushes.

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 1, January, 1884 Various

You go to Mr. Dunn's office through a little low gate and you find an old, deep-eaved, gambrel-roofed house with a hundred little window panes smiling at you from out its mantle of ivy.

Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

"The American Preceptor," which was used when Whittier was a boy. gambol (gam'bol), a sportive prank; a frolic. gambrel-roofed (gam'brel), a curved roof. gaping (gap'ing), yawning. garrulous (gar'oo-lus), wordy; chattering.

Elson Grammar School Literature v4 William H. Elson