cockloft

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Intellect in a very Tall One.—"Ofttimes such who are built four stories high, are observed to have little in their cockloft."

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles

After the stranger had gone she went to the cockloft to look for her well-dressed favourites, but they had disappeared, and they were never seen afterwards, for they were turned into fairies.

From Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Emerson, P. H.

"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

Neow,' says I, 'yeou got some ole plunder up ther in the cockloft, where yeou stuck me to sleep; 'tain't much use to yeou, and one article I see I want to trade fur.'

From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John