cockloft

Example Sentences

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It seemed to 182 him that he had spent hours there in the cockloft, whereas perhaps thirty minutes had elapsed.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

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

Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas

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

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John