cockloft
Example Sentences
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They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot.
From Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France by Stanley John 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
Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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 Henry Wallace Phillips
This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."
From Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish
