cockloft

Example Sentences

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This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

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.

"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

One pertinacious fellow actually ensconced himself for several days in the cockloft, from which he watched Crompton at work in the room below, through a gimlet hole he bored in the ceiling.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by Fyfe, J. Hamilton

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