How To Use cockloft In A Sentence
- All these wooden row houses had cocklofts - 3 to 4-foot attic spaces between the top apartment and the roof connected through rows of buildings.
- Oakum said, “Ay, ay, I see they are both in a story;” and dismissed my fellow-mate to his cockloft, although I proposed that he and I should read and translate, separately, any chapter or verse in the Greek Testament in his possession, by which it would appear whether we or the surgeon spoke truth. The Adventures of Roderick Random
- You can push down ceilings out of reach of the standard 6 foot hook found in high cocklofts.
- As the fire was climbing consuming the stairway, a pipe chase running from the basement to the cockloft above the second floor false ceiling gave the superheated gases a direct route to the attic, where the temperature rapidly rose higher and higher until it finally reached ignition temperature. Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School Fire, December 1, 1958
- Saar," said the Chevalier, "Monsieur le Capitaine, I vas not at the siege of the petit Leyth, and I know not what you say about the cockloft; but I will say for Monseigneur de Strozzi, that he understood the grande guerre, and was grand capitaine -- plus grand -- that is more great, it may be, than some of the capitaines of The Fortunes of Nigel
- As the ceilings were pulled, fire was moving across the cockloft from the adjacent hardware store.
- Janet was inexorable, and seemed already to have tired of my literary confidence; for whenever I drew near the subject, after evading it as long as she could, she made, under some pretext or other, a bodily retreat to the kitchen or the cockloft, her own peculiar and inviolate domains. The Surgeon's Daughter
- My coverage area is made up of mostly row homes with common cocklofts.
- As more companies arrived and with the row of homes evacuated, crews began to extinguish the fire which roared across the backs and in the cocklofts.
- Inside those parks are pavilions, stages, pagodas, cocklofts, mazes leading to quiet places, red flowers and green grasses.
