Where the gray-shingled house had stood, amid 20 comrades on the block, after two hours there was a black uneven scar.

The entire circumstance was so unlikely, and discussing it here, in this gray-shingled house with black shutters and white trim, an icon of suburban peace, seemed completely incongruous.

Evan Ross tugged his mother's hand, trying to pull her away from the front stoop of the small, gray-shingled house.

The gray-shingled house.

The gray-shingled house his family has summered in for decades fights like a tank.

It wasn't exactly move-in ready; for starters, the gray-shingled house had been condemned.

Mr. Lewis rattles off a roster of writers whom he has "dragged up" to stay in his gray-shingled house.

But when the work ended, the Nivens always escaped to a gray-shingled house in Oyster Bay, N.Y.

In Great Neck, L.I., Elaine Brodsky had retreated behind the walls of her gray-shingled house.