paternoster
Example Sentences
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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
“I’m used to talking about the Greek crisis, or the recent train drivers’ strike, but little did I expect that the paternoster would turn into my subject,” Strohschneider said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
The loop: down and back up There have been no new paternoster lifts installed since 1974, because of access problems and safety concerns.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
The loop: from the top The paternoster has been dubbed the ‘socialist among elevators’.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
I’ll make it good upon the accidence, body of me! that in speech is the devil’s paternoster.
From Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters by W. Carew Hazlitt
