cockloft

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How come it the foolish notion buzzed in my cockloft that, like Samson of old, I might fall upon the adversary, hip, hurrah, and thigh, and of the fragments that remained gather seven bushels?

From Mr. Scraggs by Phillips, Henry Wallace

And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.

From The Squirrel Inn by Stockton, Frank Richard

"Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George