He found that he was in a grotto, went towards the opening, and through a kind of fanlight saw a blue sea and an azure sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Count of Monte Cristo] Reference
It was a narrow maroon door with a glass fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Hard War]
Alec stood on tiptoe and peered through the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
"Because I read the number over the fanlight," Steel went on. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
"Go out into the road and look at the fanlight," Bell directed. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
He gambled and got it right and saw a glow through the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [Running Blind]
The hall was dark, with just a glimmer coming through the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
Maigret noticed a little farther on a door with a dimly lighted fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Man on the Bench]
At Bell's instigation he placed the steps before the fanlight and mounted them. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Blind] Reference
It has a silver ring in the centre, two security locks, and a fanlight above it. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
There it was — desirable — with its bay-trees in its tubs and its fanlight shining. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
Dust floated in the beams of light that flooded through the fanlight over the front door. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Waterloo]
The five-bay facade features an enclosed entranceway with sidelights and fanlight transom. From Wordnik.com. [Willett of the Day: The Willett House(s)] Reference
A light clicked on inside and showed dimly through the grimed fanlight over the front door. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
Of solid wood, it had a fanlight above which was a small balcony, supported by two pillars. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise For Two]
And then the silhouette reappeared briefly in the fanlight just as the second lamp was extinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: A False Mirror by Charles Todd] Reference
Moonlight spun a pale web through a stained-glass fanlight set high in the wall above the double doors. From Wordnik.com. [One Night Of Scandal]
A fanlight over the entrance let a William Morris design in coloured sunlight fall across the stone floor. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
All the windows and doors were closed and shuttered, but light showed through a fanlight over the hall door. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
It was a relief to step out into the hall above, where the fanlight over the door made it seem less grewsome. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters] Reference
Anne villa residence, with its gables and bulges, and bow windows, and its stained glass fanlight, and so forth. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
Once it was mounted over the fanlight in the entry way, it knew it was to watch for anyone entering through the door below. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the World to Come]
Every so often, we'd see a Victorian fanlight, or some crumbling brick, and convince ourselves we were looking into history. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
Each side has a large fanlight window with traceried head. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum] Reference
Imagine it, Rosalie, beneath that lovely old fanlight overhead. From Wordnik.com. [This Freedom] Reference
They came to her clearly through the ventilator above the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
The fanlight in the old doorway shone down the brick walk and touched. From Wordnik.com. [Tutors' Lane] Reference
One day I observed a robin trying to get in at the fanlight of a hall door. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
He pressed it again after an interval, and stepped back to look at the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
Several worn steps led to the thin high door with an old-fashioned fanlight above it. From Wordnik.com. [A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus] Reference
Just the scent of camphor, and dust-motes in a sunbeam through the fanlight over the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Usually when he was at home there was a light in his hall which showed through the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
The morning was intensely hot, and every door, window, and fanlight was as wide open as it could be. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush] Reference
He had left his lights full on for the benefit of watchers, and the hall-lamp glowed convincingly through the fanlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Rust] Reference
Colonial days; it was their grave old house with the fanlight over its dignified door which had given Wetherby Ridge its name. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Journeys On] Reference
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