Examples from literature

• Above are the attics, which stretch the whole length of an enormously high pointed roof, with two gables and two large dormer windows on each side of it. 
• But for small gables on the buttresses, it is quite plain up to the level of the roof ridge. 
• Marks can also be seen, in the masonry, which indicate that the building once had three gables. 
• The house was an old one, the gables fronting the street. 
• Then we passed a village, the thatched cottages with their white gables rising prettily from the blossoming orchards.