cockloft
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The cockloft above his room, which was reached by a ladder, had windows which were really only loopholes and from there he could better see into the tangle that sheltered his enemies.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh
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 Conington, John
Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar.
From The Squirrel Inn by Stockton, Frank Richard
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.
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
