| Our house sported gables and towers, gingerbread and scrollwork, stained-glass and leering wooden gargoyle bas-reliefs. |
| The two gruesome gargoyle bookends are based on the watchful pair who overlook the St Magnus Cathedral west door, gazing out over Broad Street. |
| At these opposite poles of judgment, Sam may be taken as either icon or gargoyle. |
| In my case I have a small gargoyle figurine that I purchased from the Chicago Institute of Architecture. |
| A slight shudder slid over him, footsteps on his grave, a shadowy ghoul with its gargoyle grin threatening to exhume long-buried corpses. |
| It's jutting out from the corner of the roof, so it could conceivably be a gargoyle proper or a grotesque. |
