gambrel-roof

With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,

The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

Flathead Indian squeezes the child's skull between two boards till it shapes itself into a kind of gambrel-roof against the rain, -- the readiest way, perhaps, of uniforming a tribe that wear no clothes.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

The sun was just rising and showering his first rays on the gambrel-roof and solid stone walls of a house surrounded by a magnificent grove of walnuts, and overlooking one of the beautiful valleys so common in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906

It was a gambrel-roof, half-ruinous structure, well banked in front with a monstrous growth of lilacs, and overhung by a great butternut-tree.

The Prism 1901

The low farmhouse, which showed its gambrel-roof and square brick chimney a few rods down the northern road, was a relic of colonial days.

Days Off And Other Digressions Henry Van Dyke 1892

The gambrel-roof with its garret crowded with household relics, --

The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry Van Dyke 1892

Bay, perhaps; and its floors and gambrel-roof have long since vanished up somebody's chimney; only its money -- its baser part -- still survives and circulates.

Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890

With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

With the gambrel-roof, and the gable looking westward to the green,

The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 06: Poems from the Breakfast Table Series Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851