cockloft

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This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."

From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Standish, Burt L.

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 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)

The cockloft above his room, which was reached by a ladder, had windows which were really only loopholes and from there he could better see into the tangle that sheltered his enemies.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

It seemed to 182 him that he had spent hours there in the cockloft, whereas perhaps thirty minutes had elapsed.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh