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 too impatient to wait for a conventional lift and the best thing about a paternoster is that you can hop on and off it as you please.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

In 1876 the General Post Office in London got one, which is often referred to as the first in the world, although Ellis had installed a paternoster in Oriel Chambers, Liverpool, eight years before.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

Nowadays, the very paternoster that inspired Heinrich Böll’s story is the setting for a popular weekly radio celebrity interview by West German Radio called the WDR2 Paternoster.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

Not a thought of prayer, not one paternoster entered his mind. 

From The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale by Brown, Arthur, Rev.