cockloft

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He knew nothing of the picture he made with clothing torn from his scrambling rushes up-ladder and down-ladder and his crouching and shifting among the rough nail-studded spaces of the cockloft.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

"Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes.

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

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

Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally.

From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Lundsford, Hugh

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