cockloft

Example Sentences

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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

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

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.

Balked greed and craven fear tore at Legrand's very soul when he returned to the cockloft in the Faubourg St. Antoine and found it empty.

From The Light That Lures by Brebner, Percy James

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