airshaft

• Out Henry's window is a fire escape that goes down into an abyss, and now that she's clinging to it she can see that the airshaft is hexagonal in cross section, and that narrow walkways encircle its interior every ten feet or so, forming what looks like a cast-iron ribcage as far as she can see up or down Down, she thinks, and then is uncertain. —  FSF - March2006
• That cry ended abruptly as he hit the bottom of the airshaft, twelve stories below There was a moment of silence. —  058 - The Golden Peril
• Sphinxman!" And when a fat woman put her head out of the window across the airshaft, Dara said, "Will you return the envelope I gave you to keep for me Of course, dearie," said Mrs. Sphinxman. "I haven't been seeing you around for a day or two. —  079 - Poison Island
• The result of the trend towards 'airshaft accuracy' in air war is a denigration in the importance of mass. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Before his rescuers had even lifted him up the 45-foot airshaft, Richard Anthony Smith, who later identified himself by showing Illuminati Special Agent No. 0931 badge, said, "Mission failed." —  The Burning Taper

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