Above the hole hung a few rusty twists of metal, all that was left of the elevator mechanism.

It was moving the wall section outward, with the consistent smoothness of an elevator mechanism.

The Shadow was the jolt that Kirk had attributed to some fault of the elevator mechanism.

Truck left him to it and went to find the elevator mechanisms.

The elevator mechanism chimed pleasantly and the door opened.

They assumed that The Shadow, unfamiliar with the elevator mechanism, had made an awkward stop.

Mawson's stride was swaggering as he went to the fountain, waded into it, and pressed the secret button which set the elevator mechanism in operation.

They entered it and went one story up, but the elevator mechanism continued to run after they had left it.

City officials said that over time, urine can corrode elevator mechanisms.

But the white thing continued to rise from the magma, as if it were standing on a submerged platform being lifted by an elevator mechanism.