cockloft

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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

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

From Familiar Quotations by Bartlett, John

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

From Shakspere, Personal Recollections by Joyce, John A.

After the stranger had gone she went to the cockloft to look for her well-dressed favourites, but they had disappeared, and they were never seen afterwards, for they were turned into fairies.

From Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories by Emerson, P. H.

Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various