She played so softly that the shrill whistling of the wind around the gables the heavy soughing of the trees was plainly audible above it - A Terrible Secret by May Agnes Fleming

This special pattern is peculiar to the House of the Seven Gables - Historic Homes by Mary H. Northend

Behind the tops of the gables and pinnacles of the buttresses runs a small arcade with beautiful little figures only a few inches high above this a still more delicate arcade runs round the whole tomb interrupted at regular intervals by shields charged on Dom Pedro's tomb with the arms of Portugal and on that of Dona Inez with the same and with those of the Castros alternately - Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson