Word: transom
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Only partially appeased with this consoling thought, the infants tone down their vocal chorus to a mere whimper, and concentrate on the delectable vision conjured up by their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...stone's throw stood the Holmes house in which the poet was born and which was torn down a few years ago to make room for the Law School building. The doors and window sashes are the same that were originally put into the house, and in the transom over the door are five lights of old English bull's eye glass...
AFTER the last storm it was found that one or two inches of snow had drifted through the transom of Weld. Query: Ought the ornamental in architecture to predominate over the practical...
...comply with certain requirements, such as giving notice of our intention at the Bursar's office, and posting a notice on the door that the room has been cleaned. Now I would like to know why, after this has been done, the rooms are still entered, through the transom, if there is a Yale lock on the door, and generally small movables are stolen. In one case which came to my knowledge last year the furniture was piled up under one of the windows, and the blinds carefully pulled up so that the sun and dust entirely ruined...