cockloft
Example Sentences
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And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.
From The Frogs by Aristophanes
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
Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht.
From The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry by John Conington
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the Conscrumptive Hospital.
From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Thomas Hughes
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.
From The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
