There ought to have been a lamp in the front hall, but no ray showed through the eighteenth century fanlight over the door.
"The Lion's Share"
E. Arnold Bennett
One of the kind whose genteel hall light had burned through the fanlight decade after decade, and then suddenly, overnight, as it were, disintegrated into a furnished-room house with a sign over the door bell.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
The fanlight beat full upon the gleaming shoulders of his waterproof and upon his upturned features.
"Round the Red Lamp Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"
Arthur Conan Doyle