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 Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley J. Weyman
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
In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
Neow,' says I, 'yeou got some ole plunder up ther in the cockloft, where yeou stuck me to sleep; 'tain't much use to yeou, and one article I see I want to trade fur.'
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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
