cockloft
Example Sentences
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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
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
They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.
From Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
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
