But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest intention of withdrawing.
Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure.
Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin.
He pulled a chair to the door, mounted it, and cautiously opening the transom which he had previously loosened, thrust his head out into the passage.
It was a large closet with a transom that let in a certain amount of light, and at first their situation seemed rather amusing to the three.
In her absence a ladder had been brought from a corner of the gymnasium, and it was very little work to lower the basket over the transom to the hungry girls within.
The whole of the front, too, was ornamented with a profusion of transom casement windows, with carved wooden galleries before them; and richly sculptured wooden panels and gilded columns were to be found in every part of it.
The upper Decorated stage consists of an octagon having a fine window of three lights in each face, the part below the transom not glazed, and an open parapet above.
The design of the east window is inelegant, the transom is heavy, and the tracery in the large circle at the top spoils the effect of the window as a whole.
They also turned the button of the transom window so that the glass could not be swung back as before.
Sir Geoffrey Transomceased to be when he said good-night to Lady Torminster.
The transom of Laura's door shone brightly; but the knob, turning uselessly in Cora's hand, proved the door itself not so hospitable.
The transom over the door became luminous; some one had lighted the gas in the upper hall.
He slammed the transom tight and drew down the shades.
I heard every word; the transom was open; I couldn't help it.
The transom was open and every word uttered in the room floated through it.
Suddenly a voice roared from out the open transom of the private office, like a cyclone through a gap.
Sleep held it; blank windowpanes looked over the arcade's roof, the one bright spot the oblong of light that shone from the transom over the door of the Planters Hotel.
Then knowing that the light through the transom would betray his presence, he called, "Come in.
Oliver Dixon sat on one of the transom seats in the little cabin, his face a ghastly gray.
Daylight was flooding the cabin from the transom overhead when Captain Halstead was roused by hearing Mrs. Tremaine’s voice.
Strong, a Chicago board of trade clerk, the sole survivor of all the occupants of the gallery who tried to escape through the locked door, smashed with his fist a glass transomand climbed through it.
Patricia, from her hiding place behind the door screen, could make out nothing but the dim oblong of the transom above her head and the long pale mass of the skylight.
The transom showed black and empty above the massive folded doors.
Affiant says that a candle was then lighted in the bathroom and that Miss Donahue reached a little bottle through the transom and told said Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, to mix it.
This affiant says that Miss Donahue was talking over the back transom to the man inside the bathroom.
The transomof the bathroom had been taken out and the door opened from the inside.
He ascended hastily two steps, which brought him to the level of the half-opened transom of the kitchen.
He saw only the Sabbath-sealed cupboards, the cold white china on the dresser, and the flicker of the candle on the partly-opened glass transom above the door.
She dare not for her life look through that transom to see what occasions the noise in the hospital.
Cynthia Vaughn asked, pointing to the transom over a locked door, which formerly opened from our parlor into the hospital ward.
I shall always think," said Adelaide, "that the first robbery was committed by that individual we saw through the studio transom in Professor Waite's great Rembrandt hat.
Again Winnie made an involuntary movement as though about to speak, but restrained herself, and Adelaide continued: "I told him about the face at the transom in the Rembrandt hat, and he asked me if it was Professor Waite.
Milly turned pale and clutched my hand, and we all looked at thetransom with straining eyes.
It moved about silently from one side of the transom to the other, descended, and appeared again.
There isn't any transom over this door," said Bob, pointing.
At one time these two rooms had formed part of a suite, but when there was little call except for single rooms, the transom had been closed and painted black to prevent surreptitious views from one room to the other.
He'll know whether there are any secret sliding panels in the walls, through which the key could have been tossed in as it could have been had there been a transom over the door.
Another look toward the curtained window, but never a glance did Jolly Bill bestow on the paintedtransom over the door between his room and the cubbyhole.
Bob's first activity, after settling himself, was to mount on a chair and examine, as best he could in the feeble light of one electric bulb in his room, the transom over the door between his apartment and that of Jolly Bill.
You can get in there and look over the transom if you like.
Quickly he mounted to a chair which raised him so that he could look through the transom over his door.
From the other side of the transom we could, as we had expected, hear nothing.
A moment later Kennedy led the way over to the booth under the transom and we sat down.
At that moment a more daring ray of sunlight found its way through the transomover the store door and lit up the dusky place.
Out through the office window he stared, and out of the transom above the front door.
It had two perches instead of one, and between these two perches, from the front transom to the hind axletree bed, two strong leather braces were placed, with jacks or small windlasses, to wind them tighter if they stretched.
C= springs behind, and elbow-springs and braces from a high scroll iron on thetransom bed.
The under works being thus complete, a body is formed by two long fir poles laid from the top of the transom to the top of the hind axletree bed, about 18 inches apart, with two planks between.
The carriage is composed of a transom in front, with a perch (as we name the long piece of timber that unites the front and hind wheels) fastened to it.
The "hatch" was the transom over the door between the offices.
The transom above was open and through it drifted out a faint blue cloud.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
