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transom
1. All of that in turn complimented the warm hues filtering through the un-shuttered windows and transom
2. stern, the transom stood out in my memory because it gave
3. The engine of Penn’s boat was torn off the transom
4. At one point she joined me in the cockpit, leaning against the transom with her head back, a smile curving her perfect lips as she surveyed the cumulus skimming overhead
5. They would peep in through the cracks, whispering, they threw live animals in through the transom, and on one occasion they nailed up the door and the window and it took Aureli-ano half a day to force them open
6. The Beach was opened, jet skis were lowered into the water and the grills were fired up on the rear of the boat by the transom doors
7. A moment later Kennedy led the way over to the booth under the transom and we sat down
8. Then he looked up at the transom
9. Kennedy was watching his chance, and when the cafe emptied itself after being deluged between the acts from a neighbouring theatre, he jumped up quickly in the seat, stood on his toes and craned his neck through the diagonally opened transom
10. From the other side of the transom we could, as we had expected, hear nothing
11. He could not restrain his impatience longer, but had jumped up on the leather seat and for a moment looked at the black leather box, then through the half open transom, as best he could
12. Tie-downs are an absolute necessity! At the least, you need both the winch wire and a protection stop chain at the bow, a gunwale tie-down amidships and two transom tie-downs
13. The second button wipes out a shot of the kiddie subclub (apparently he liked to keep an eye on Jo) to reveal a dark, shadowy room, ornately paneled with a lovely transom ceiling
14. But all his sensations were perfectly clear; he had kept complete possession of himself; in fact, he was even pleasantly aware of that calmness at the very moment of being pitched head first over the transom, to struggle on his back in a lot of water
15. So I’ve got it out and away from my body, trying to avoid getting pecked to death, and I climb up on the wobbly toilet seat and very slowly when the wingbeat subsides put bird and board and then my head out through the transom, where the sun is just coming up, praise be to the dashboard Jesi, red morning, streets beginning to articulate again, but there’s no time to commune with you, New York, I disengage the wing from the glue, and then I’ve got to do the legs, too, but soft, so as not to rip anything, which occasions another flurry, and all of a sudden I’m furious at the position I find myself in, I don’t know if I mean in the bathroom or in this city or as a human being or what, but I’m yelling, ‘Hold still, goddammit’—and everything I ever told you is a lie if the thing doesn’t go completely still, pluck pluck, the legs come unstuck, and without thinking I open my hand and it just … plummets
16. Seated on the transom was what seemed to me a most uncommon and surprising figure
17. Such, then, was the person that I saw seated on the transom when I followed Captain Peleg down into the cabin
18. But to my astonishment, he sat down again on the transom very quietly, and seemed to have not the slightest intention of withdrawing
19. Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table
20. Here, then, I'll seat me, against the transom, in the ship's full middle, all her keel and her three masts before me
