The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories] Reference
Why should he care to see either cockloft or girl?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of a To-morrow] Reference
And this here most august and upper-crust cockloft is the. From Wordnik.com. [Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography] Reference
What goes down in their cockloft, stays in their cockloft. From Wordnik.com. [Of course, I could be wrong...] Reference
This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Lures] Reference
Fire Cmdr. Will Knight said the fire was located in the cockloft. From Wordnik.com. [Of course, I could be wrong...] Reference
Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
"Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
QUOTATION: Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
"It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart. From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Lures] Reference
The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle with the Slum] Reference
A ladder connected with a hole in the roof enabled you to reach the cockloft, the guest room of the establishment. From Wordnik.com. [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference
They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot. From Wordnik.com. [Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France] Reference
This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft.". From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Chums] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Light That Lures] Reference
15Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
2465Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
A bodily retreat to the kitchen or the cockloft, her own peculiar and inviolate domains. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
Chesapeake Bay to that of these hills, and there's a devil of depression in this cockloft, it seems to me. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Light That Lures] Reference
Robinson, "is just about 700, occupying 84 double frame houses, each containing two tenements of three rooms to a family besides the cockloft. From Wordnik.com. [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference
'Tis a cockloft above us!. From Wordnik.com. [Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France] Reference
We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. From Wordnik.com. [The Frogs] Reference
QUOTATION: Whose cockloft is unfurnished. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
While up in the cockloft, so cosy and snug. From Wordnik.com. [Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879] Reference
Often the cockloft is empty, in those which. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations] Reference
38Whose cockloft is unfurnished. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
9249Whose cockloft is unfurnished. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations] Reference
In the stable, or the cockloft, hey?. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 01] Reference
's cockloft empty. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations] Reference
Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change. From Wordnik.com. [The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5] Reference
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