cockloft
Example Sentences
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Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various
The cockloft above his room, which was reached by a ladder, had windows which were really only loopholes and from there he could better see into the tangle that sheltered his enemies.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.
In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace
Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
