cockloft

Example Sentences

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This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

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 Emerson, P. H.

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 Sleeper, John Sherburne

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 Phillips, Henry Wallace