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A little way behind them was the lift cage they had just left.

They headed for the lift cage, just over twenty feet away.

Only when the lift cage had taken her down a level did she finally draw a breath easily.

The Martians' lift cage was in view, much lower than it had been.

He had been standing guard over a lift cage.

He made soothing noises and presently helped them into the lift cage.

There'll be a lift cage along for the children."

The lift cage descended from the Castle into black bowels of rock and earth.

He led a rush toward the lift cage.

He found the lift cage, wiped absently at a film of moisture on the control panel.

Swiftly she traversed the 50 yards to the elevator and summoned the lift cage.

Meanwhile the lift cage sank deeper into the shaft.

The lift cage set itself in motion.

The interior is mostly intact and one can still see parts of gears which were used to lift cages up to the arena floor.

He was standing half-upright in a wobbly lift cage.

The lift cage jerked and surged, and everyone still sleeping woke.

The first emergence from the bowels of the earth consisted of the lift cages.

And he was still there when the lift cage slowed to a halt and Stone yanked the doors open.

At the same time a buzzer sounded and then the howl of countless sirens penetrated the lift cage.

Ling hadn't reconnected the lift cage yet.

The effect, for their passengers, was rather like being in an out-of-control lift cage as it hurtled three-hundred meters downward.

He was a heartbreaking sight, slumped in the lift cage with his long chin on his chest, his hair all tangled and dirty.

As children arrived, Clave herded the smaller ones, with some difficulty, into a rectangular frame with a slatted floor: the lift cage.

Only the clank, clank of the wrought iron lift cage provides a kind of background music, echoing through the empty building.

Elevators and pulleys raised and lowered scenery and props, as well as lifting caged animals to the surface for release.

An elevator cage ran down one side of the hole.

There were oil drums in back of the elevator cage.

Some of them are polite, but the men do fill the elevator cage.

He was wrestling the vase into the elevator cage now.

A small elevator cage was set in one wall.

But nobody moved toward the elevator cage leading to the bottom of the tank.

Stuck to the elevator cage was a note, which Nick grabbed.

I walked down the hallway, waiting to hear the elevator cage close behind me, but it stayed open.

There was a clicking sound as their elevator cage switched rails.

Just as he was stepping into the elevator cage, he changed his mind.

The elevator cage slowed more and more, finally coming to a complete stop.

There was probably a release button concealed somewhere within the elevator cage.

In the cocoon of the elevator cage, Delia spoke softly.

He was staring at his own haunted eyes in the polished brass wall of the elevator cage.

He looks through the elevator cage at each level as he ascends.

Yet the elevator cage glowed with a strange cherry-red glow.

Without a word, the Canadian set to work preparing a shaped charge atop the elevator cage.

The elevator cage clicked to a halt, a quarter of a mile up in the sky.

The interior of the elevator cage was polished steel.

At first glance it looks like an elevator cage, but there is no elevator and never was.

Jason punched 2, and the elevator cage rose, a bit jerkily.

The cable that held their elevator cage broke, sending them plummeting to the bottom.

He raised an arm toward the small elevator cage marked "Senate Suite."

But just as she was about to get back in the elevator cage, a man of perhaps sixty appeared at the head of the stairs.