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
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
The paternoster is the VW Beetle among lifts.
From The Guardian • Aug. 14, 2015
During the afternoon M. and S., in peaceful brotherhood, sat over the pool, plied paternoster and roach pole, and fished till the float could be no more identified in the dusk.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
