cockloft

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A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller:

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

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

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

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.

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