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

It warns of the “risk of being crushed … between car and landing”, and states that the paternoster is only to be ridden “at the user’s own risk”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015

Out out, one in There are an estimated 250 paternoster lifts still in use in Germany.

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 Hazlitt, W. Carew