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
The loop: from the top The paternoster has been dubbed the ‘socialist among elevators’.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
As the paternoster cabin in which he was slowly descending into the bowels of Stuttgart’s town hall plunged into darkness, Dejan Tuco giggled infectiously.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 14, 2015
“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
Yet all this fight lasted no longer than one could say a paternoster, in which brief space seven brave soldiers did bite the dust.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
