cockloft
Example Sentences
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They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John Weyman
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
From The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.
From The Squirrel Inn by Frank Richard Stockton
This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
