What are gables, John? "A Mere Accident" by George Moore

The more Matthew thought about the matter the more he was convinced that Anne never had been dressed like the other girls- never since she had come to Green Gables. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

House of the Seven Gables. "The Lamplighter" by Maria S. Cummins

The whole building is surmounted by brick battlements, everything else being of granite, resting on a good trefoil corbel table, and, as the roofs are perfectly flat, there are no gables. "Portuguese Architecture" by Walter Crum Watson