cockloft

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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

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

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

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

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

Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht.

From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by Conington, John