gav'le-end

Updated: May 9, 2025

I cannot picture the place without seeing her, as a little girl, come to the door of a certain house and beat her bass against the gav'le-end, or there is a wedding to-night, and the carriage with the white-eared horse is sent for a maiden in pale blue, whose bonnet-strings tie beneath the chin.

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie - Margaret Ogilvy