cockloft

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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

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

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, 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.

In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace