cockloft
Example Sentences
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"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
My case was a desperate one, and I might have acceded to his proposal if he had not unguardedly added that I should have to sleep in a cockloft in the shed!
From Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper
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 Hugh Lundsford
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 Henry Wallace Phillips
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
