cockloft
Example Sentences
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Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.
From Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett
Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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 Hugh Lundsford
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
