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
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
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
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
Bid him take it to Rouen, and at every running water he comes to say a paternoster and sprinkle its tail.
From The Man in Black by Weyman, Stanley John
