cockloft
Example Sentences
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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 John Bartlett
Balked greed and craven fear tore at Legrand's very soul when he returned to the cockloft in the Faubourg St. Antoine and found it empty.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
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
