cockloft

Example Sentences

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"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

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

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 Standish, Burt L.

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

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 Bartlett, John