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
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
The paternoster is the VW Beetle among lifts.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
Then, turning away from it, she sank on her knees beside the great chair, folded her hands and softly whispered a paternoster.
From On the Heights A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
