cockloft

Example Sentences

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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)

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

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller:

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.

From The Frogs by Aristophanes

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 Fyfe, J. Hamilton