elevator-shaft

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.

Berlin da_lj 2010

There was a time when the elevator-shaft seemed to have tapped the awful sources of the smell in the house of Cervantes at

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

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.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

There was a sharp rap at the hotel room door, and Peter's stomach did a dramatic elevator-shaft drop.

The Season of the Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977

There was a sharp rap at the hotel room door, and Peter's stomach did a dramatic elevator-shaft drop.

The Season Of The Machete 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.

The Satanic Verses 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.

Omnilingual H. Beam Piper 1934

But James Thorold went aside to stand beside an elevator-shaft.

The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

They moved rapidly toward the elevator-shaft, passing on their way deserted cigar - and news-stands shrouded in dirty brown clothes.

The Brass Bowl 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.

Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906