cockloft
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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.
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)
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas
The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.
From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.
