Subway entrance

Usage examples of turnstile.

The locutory was situated next to the turnstile gate, and its use was regulated, restricted, and always required the presence of a chaperone.

To keep a spatial metaphor, the approximative character of which I have already stressed, I shall say that the signification of the myth is constituted by a sort of constantly moving turnstile which presents alternately the meaning of the signifier and its form, a language-object and a metalanguage, a purely signifying and a purely imagining consciousness.

They give two threepenny bits to the gentleman at the turnstile and begin to waddle slowly up the winding staircase, grunting, encouraging each other, afraid of the dark, panting, one asking the other have you the brawn, praising God and the Blessed Virgin, threatening to come down, peeping at the airslits.

In the present case it consisted of four walls radiating from a centre like the arms of a turnstile, with seats in each angle, so that whencesoever the wind came, it was always possible to find a screened corner from which to observe the landscape.

Mr Engler - and the artist - and perhaps the turnstile man - with robbery and swindling?

He went right, put five kopeks in the turnstile, and jumped on the fast-descending escalator.

Instead of Nazi soldiers, clowns and punkers and greasers and space creatures and God-knows-what-all roamed the outer edges of the area trying to control the crowd of mainly unruly teenagers who pushed into turnstiled entryways, shoving their tickets into the hands of other oddly costumed types.

But the lama strode out, head high in air, and pausing an instant before the great statue of a Bodhisat in meditation, brushed through the turnstiles.

So does the stone Bodhisat sit who looks down upon the patent self-registering turnstiles of the Lahore Museum.

The station’s floor was divided up by concentric rows of turnstiles, channelling passengers into the cluster of wave stairs occupying the centre.

The mounted police, the circling helicopter, the growl and thrust of the crowd along from the stand entrance, moving in unsteady fat conga lines to the body-narrow turnstiles were all outside his experience.

Meanwhile Carl Steffen's prize flock of Dorset Down ewes were grazing on the playing surface and volunteers were preparing refreshments and manning the primitive turnstiles.

There were a dozen or so people in sight, purchasing farecards from the ticket machines or hurrying through the turnstiles to the lower platform, yet of the impostor there was no sign.

With black bags under his eyes and teeth rotting in his head he stumbled from a gravshaft and with thudding heart finally saw a florally decorated and colorfully illuminated scentsign that said HANGING GARDENS There was an entrance turnstile and a cashier's window.

The present practice in West-Campus colleges was for the strongest and nimblest young men from each quadrangle -- generally the winners of athletic competitions held in conjunction with the Carnival -- to fling themselves against the Turnstile, bleating in what they took to be goatly fashion, while the new registrants and spectators cheered them on and a figure dressed to represent the Dean o' Flunks endeavored to block their way.