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
One pertinacious fellow actually ensconced himself for several days in the cockloft, from which he watched Crompton at work in the room below, through a gimlet hole he bored in the ceiling.
From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe
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 P. H. Emerson
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 John Conington
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
