Also worth seeing: an aquarium elevator-shaft in a hotel lobby (thank you, Lets Go Guide) and the iconic winged column from a favorite Wim Wenders movie. ❋ Da_lj (2010)
No doubt it would have punched through Jake's forehead above the left eye, entering his brain and ending his life, had not a strong, brown-fingered hand seized Jake by the collar at that very moment and yanked him backward through the shrill elevator-shaft whistle that sounds endlessly between the levels of the Dark Tower. ❋ King, Stephen (2004)
There was a time when the elevator-shaft seemed to have tapped the awful sources of the smell in the house of Cervantes at ❋ Unknown (2004)
There was a sharp rap at the hotel room door, and Peter's stomach did a dramatic elevator-shaft drop. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (1977)
Orphia took up her position at the ticket -- collection point just along from the elevator-shaft, and Uri managed to spend a good deal of time down there with her, leaning against the door-jamb of his gleaming lift and picking his teeth with the silver toothpick his great -- grandfather had liberated from some old-time plantation boss. ❋ Rushdie, Salman (1967)
An elevator-shaft on the north side was found reaching clear to the twenty-fifth floor; this would give access to the top of the building; another shaft, from the center, would take care of the floors below. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)
But James Thorold went aside to stand beside an elevator-shaft. ❋ Various (1915)
They moved rapidly toward the elevator-shaft, passing on their way deserted cigar - and news-stands shrouded in dirty brown clothes. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)
There at the far end of the hallway, a red glare already flickered on the wall around the turn by the elevator-shaft. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
Just at this moment, the door of the elevator-shaft opened on her floor -- and her knocker fell. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)
The janitor and the cook exchanging compliments up and down the elevator-shaft; the refusal to send up more coal, the solid splash of the water upon his head, the language he sends up the shaft, the triumphant laughter of the cook, to her kitchen retiring. ❋ Various (1902)
Suit-case in one hand, umbrella in the other, he sped along the corridor to the elevator-shaft, arriving in time to catch a glimpse of the lighted roof of the cage sliding into depths below. ❋ Unknown (1899)
The elevator-man had carried no one down, and he confessed shamefacedly that he had again been asleep, and could not say whether or not anybody had descended the stair which circled the elevator-shaft. ❋ Francis Lynde (1893)
Peter Cooper's mechanical mind saw that higher buildings would demand mechanical lifts, and so he provided a special elevator-shaft. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
There was a time when the elevator-shaft seemed to have tapped the awful sources of the smell in the house of Cervantes at Valladolid, but I do not remember what blameless origin the concierge assigned to the odor, or whether it had anything to do with the horses and the hens which a chance-opened back door showed us stabled in the rear of the hotel's grandiose entrance. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
A thick cloud of smoke gushed out of the elevator-shaft, and poured into the hall, which it seemed to fill instantly. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
They had kept the fire to the elevator-shaft and the adjoining wood-work, and but for the water they had poured into the place the ladies might have returned to their rooms, which were quite untouched by the flames. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
Williams came and looked in at him once, and then went back to the stool which he occupied just outside the elevator-shaft when not running it. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)
It all happens in such a frenzy of momentum and on-the-fly exposition that some of the more preposterous elements in the story will strike you only in retrospect, after the helicopter leaps, the elevator-shaft daredevilry and the race-the-clock flirtation with thermonuclear war. ❋ Unknown (2010)
[Eric] and David like performing an [elevator shaft] while they are being [watched]. ❋ DXtremz (2015)
Stan" I gave [your sister] [the elevator] [shaft] yesterday
Mark" That would explain the blood ❋ W Frum P.town (2008)
"Did you see that huge piece of toilet paper stuck to the boss's shoe during the meeting last night?"
"Haha, yeah man; totally elevator shafted."
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"Oh my gosh, were you there when that kid snuck up behind the principal and [pantsed] him?"
"Totally man! [Spongebob boxers]: extreme elevator [shaftage]!" ❋ SlangSultan (2011)
I just [elevator] [shafted] that [beer]. It went... STRAIGHT DOWN!!! ❋ Ojc Nyc (2009)
[I dont know] why he was trying that position but you may have well just [thrown] a [hot dog down an elevator shaft]. ❋ Thebeeflips (2006)
