cockloft

Example Sentences

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

From Malcolm by MacDonald, George

The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing.

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller:

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

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

Sot is an old word that signifies a dunce, dullard, jolthead, gull, wittol, or noddy, one without guts in his brains, whose cockloft is unfurnished, and, in short, a fool.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony