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 Weyman, Stanley John
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 Weyman, Stanley J.
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 Phillips, Henry Wallace
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
Intellect in a very Tall One.—"Ofttimes such who are built four stories high, are observed to have little in their cockloft."
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
