paternoster
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Such so-called paternoster elevators still survive in some German public buildings.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
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
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
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
Sancho commenced to shake like a leaf, and even Don Quixote was frightened and muttered a paternoster between his teeth while his hair stood on end.
From The Story of Don Quixote by Florence Choate
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