"Oh, La-Larry, why did you ever take such a risk!" she breathed. Her whisper was piteous, aquiver with fright. "Come this way!" and she quickly pulled him into the room where he had met Miss Grierson and to the door by which he had entered. Maggie opened this door. "They're all in the little hallway--I don't think they'll see you," her rapid, agitated whisper went on. "Don't take the elevators in this corridor, they're in plain sight. There are elevators just around the corner. Take them; they're safer.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
The orderly and the nurse trundled me out into the hall and loaded me into an elevator, which was to carry us up to the top of the hospital. Several other nurses were already in the elevator. As we came aboard one of them remarked that it was a fine day. A fine day for what? She did not finish the sentence.英文原著 · 《Speaking of Operations》
The elevator responded by an astonishing leap that carried them past three or four floors! "Stop her! stop her!" bawled Shuey; but in spite of Armorer's pulling himself purple in the face, the elevator did not stop until it bumped with a crash against the joists of the roof. "Well, do you suppose we're stuck HERE?" growled Armorer. "Well, sir, I'll try. Say, don't be exerting yourself violent. It strikes me she's for all the world like the wimmen,-- in exthremes, sir, in exthremes! And it wouldn't be noways so pleasant to go riproaring that gait down cellar!英文原著 · 《Stories of a Western Town》
The elevator in the first shaft shot down again to the ground floor, and as it disappeared Kennedy took two spools of wire from his pocket and hastily shoved them through the lattice work the third elevator shaft. They quickly unrolled, and I could hear them strike the top of the empty car below in the basement. That meant that Andrews on the ground floor could reach the wires and attach them to the bell.英文原著 · 《The Silent Bullet》
"Oh, we can't get out! And we're bound to stay and raise grain. And they're bound to cart it. And that's all there is to it. They force us to stand every loss, even to the shortage that is made in transportation. The railroad companies own the elevators, and they have the cinch on us. Our grain is at their mercy. God knows how I'm going to raise that interest.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
Elevator right over there, 15th floor, Martha Stewart living omnimedia.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》