Most machines have a fixed tail as well as a horizontal rudder or elevator, the same being so set that it tends to keep the plane in a certain normal inclination, the elevator being called in to increase that or diminish it as may be required.
The elevator steers up and down, the rudder steers to either hand.
Since generally speaking the speed of his engine will remain constant, he rises, remains at the same height or falls, at will, by the simple manipulation of the elevator through which he can change the tilt or inclination.
In addition to the elevator there is also another rudder of the ordinary kind, such as every ship and boat has, for guiding the machine to right or left.
He stood off at a distance while he saw that she registered and was respectfully treated and led to the elevator by a page.
He walked down the marble and iron steps zigzagging around the elevator shaft.
Now it came over her that she could not aspire to aristocracy and allow negro hall-boys to send men up in the elevator and telephone her afterward.
It lifted her like that Biltmore elevator and sent her heart up into her head.
They went up in the elevator to the second floor, where, in the fatal Room 258, clerks at several windows vended for a dollar apiece the State's permission to experiment with matrimony.
Gilfoyle applied the magic silver wafer to the itching palm and stepped into the elevator when it came.
She ran shamelessly barefoot to the door to have the last of his lips, called good-by to him when the elevator carried him into the pit, and flung kisses downward after him.
She shrank into a corner and sought cover and concealment, for she was afraid to go back to the elevator through the ceaseless inflow of the décolletées.
Kedzie put on her clothes, and the family went down to the elevator together.
I'll go up a flight of stairs and take the elevator after His Majesty has finished with it.
They pretended to ring the bell there, waited for the elevator to disappear, then walked down a flight of steps and paused at the fatal sill.
He was about to press the elevator button, but he did not like to present himself gory to the elevator-boy.
At the great elevator over the old Battery many passengers went down and many came up, but the wide platforms still moved to the east and moved to the west, never stopping or changing their rate of speed.
Peter, as he came slowly back from the elevator to the apartment, discovered that he still held the poker tightly in his right hand, like a sword.
The sense of being haunted by a dream grew as he went up in the elevator and walked along the hall.
When he left the elevator and walked along the dark corridor to the rooms he was considering reprisals.
The misgivings deepened as Hy walked slowly out to the elevator and then out to the street.
He slipped out into the corridor, rang for the elevator and went out across the Square to the mail box.
He ran from the elevator to the apartment door, key in hand, hurried within and tore into the closet.
Clemens said afterward that he had a positive conviction that she would be on the elevator when they reached it.
Going down in the elevator a man stepped in from one of the floors swearing violently.
The elevator had not reached the European apartment in those days, and it was necessary, on Mrs. Clemens's account, to have a ground floor.
The elevator was just coming up, and as they reached it, it stopped at their landing, and Mrs. Boyesen stepped out.
He appealed to the attendant when the elevator came up, but that worthy thoughtfully tickled his scalp under his cap, and suggested a consultation with the taxi-driver.
Halfway along a well-lighted passage he saw an elevator sign, and found an attendant sitting there.
Had he prophesied a hurricane he would not have been far wrong, but it was entirely in keeping with the other remarkable developments of a night already noteworthy for its strange happenings that the elevator attendant at No.
It is evident," he went on, "that they procured the minister's address from the elevator man at your dwelling.
Thus, theelevator man was not aware of a good deal of ringing of electric bells and hammering on the locked door of flat Number 10.
The elevator man looked after it, and tickled another section of his scalp.
Fifth," said the clerk to the elevator attendant, and the four men shot skyward.
Curtis was piloted into an elevator by an affable negro, was conducted to 605, which, of course, lay on the sixth floor, and was plunged forthwith into the prosaic business of consigning a good deal of soiled linen to the laundry.
At the end of the corridor was an elevator in which they were shot to one of the upper floors; and the boy, inserting a key in a heavy mahogany door, revealed a sitting-room.
You were looking at a reflection in that useless old window behind which the elevator runs.
The great door leading to the elevator opened not twenty feet to the left of him.
That is an elevator which will take you up to the heights above, where you can look over the whole city," was Birger's answer.
Then he whispered to Gerda to ask if she thought they might go up in the elevator before going to the Deer Park.
She was off down the aisle toward the elevator marked "Employées.
Her eyes and Sadie's followed the two figures until they had stepped into the cream-and-gold elevator and had vanished.
Still protesting, he found himself in theelevator with a dozen red-cheeked, scrubbed-looking jackies.
Just before seven there disembarked at floor two out of the cream-and-gold elevator one of those visions that have helped to make Fifth Avenue a street of the worst-dressed women in the world.
Out here for the jackies' dance," said the elevator boy.
The metal door of theelevator stared inquiringly after her.
The second elevator arrived, and, like some great iron insect with many beaks, began to swallow up the grain from the holds aft.
There was a drumming boom of machinery, mixed with the swish of the ingulfing of the grain and its disgorging through broader conduits on the other side of the elevator into the river barges.
But the elevatorwas kept at work, and arc lights hung over the hold showed the novel scene of the sliding grain and its trimmers.
One effect of the late-continued drone and thud of the elevator was to torment me with war dreams.
Lighters of the local type, very long and narrow, were already alongside when the tugs swung the firstelevator into his place.
Getting out of the elevator at the fourth floor, Jack hastily made his way into Henry Carleton's offices.
Noting the number of the room on the framed directory placarded within, he left the elevator at the tenth floor, and hastening down the corridor, paused opposite the door.
Lors grinned and watched the big blond stride away to the elevator that would take him down to the bar on the first level.
He found a vacantelevator and took it down to the hangar level.
An elevator brought them up a hundred and fifty stories.
They entered an elevator and dropped thirty stories to the ground floor of the great building.
As they approached, a lean man, carrying a black bag, darted out of an elevator shaft opposite the door, ran across the corridor, and entered.
Next to the miracle, this is the first real thrill I've had--I feel like an elevator starting down quick.
As he shot up in the elevator some one slapped him on the back, and turning he saw Elmer Moffatt at his side, smooth and rubicund under a new straw hat.
The elevator door rolled back, and Mr. Spragg, entering it, found his companion at his side.
He entered the vast marble vestibule of the Ararat Trust Building and walked toward the express elevator that was to carry him up to his office.
At the door of the elevator a man turned to him, and he recognized Elmer Moffatt, who put out his hand with an easy gesture.
As she emerged from the elevator she was surprised to see Moffatt in the vestibule.
It was the Friday morning, and Beale stepped briskly through the vestibule of the Ritz-Carlton, and declining the elevator went up the stairs two at a time.
There are two ways down, the elevator and the stairs, and it is mighty difficult to follow a man unless you know which way he is going.
They stepped out of the elevator and into a large room, filled with the clatter of many machines.
They consulted the directory in the lobby of the building and took the elevator to the fifth floor where the Associated Press offices were located.
Among its advantages over the older hostelries are: An Express Elevator to the Seventh Heaven, and a Dream Interpreter Call and United States Valentine Chute on every floor.
It's one of the elevator wires," said Dave, darting a quick glance at the spot.
I shifted theelevator just in time to save a smash up.
A single lever controlled the elevator and side flaps and there were radical bearings to take both side and end thrusts.
The rapidity with which a building is consumed by flames is due to the wind and the draughts from stairways, open doors and windows and elevator shafts.
The walls of elevator shafts and all vertical openings should be built of non-combustible material, such as brick and mortar and all elevators should be equipped with automatic traps.
In another hotel, inexperienced elevator boys were broken in on dangerous cars containing signs that read: 'This elevator shall not carry more than fifteen persons.
In one hotel I rode forty-four times on an elevatorwhere the guard door was closed only once, though the car was often crowded, and twice I saw girls narrowly escape injury from catching their skirts on the landing doors and the latches.
The rudder and elevator flaps in modern practice are hinged to the after edges of the planes.
A large bow elevator was mounted which made the ship rather unstable.
A single rudder plane and the ordinary elevator planes were fitted to the envelope.
The usualelevator planes are adopted with a single long rudder plane.
The horizontal fins with the elevator flaps, and the vertical fin with the rudder flap, are fixed to the ridges of the envelope.
So you’ve got a friend,” said the elevator boy with a grin.
Cook and Annie shrieked with laughter, and said they’d have their dig at the elevator boy too, then finally they all went to their work.
We entered a specially grand apartment-house with a marble entrance, and plenty of mirrors and palms, and we went up in the elevator to the seventh story.
When we got to the apartment house, and he entered the elevator which was always too speedy a one for my comfort, he acted as if he thought it was going slowly.
The elevator boy took me down below, and the door-man let me out on the sidewalk.
He looked frightfully, but he made an effort to hold himself up, and waddled toward the elevator with us.
That kid elevator boy gave me some mouth about it,” said Louis sheepishly.
You descend in an express elevator car; in that bucket you just drop.
There is a series of rooms where invalids, women with children, or other persons seeking privacy, may go directly by private elevator where they may rest while waiting for connecting trains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "elevator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeroplane; airplane; crib; garner; hayloft; hoist; lift; parts; silo
