How To Use Cockloft In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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You can push down ceilings out of reach of the standard 6 foot hook found in high cocklofts.
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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
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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
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As the ceilings were pulled, fire was moving across the cockloft from the adjacent hardware store.
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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
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My coverage area is made up of mostly row homes with common cocklofts.
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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.
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Inside those parks are pavilions, stages, pagodas, cocklofts, mazes leading to quiet places, red flowers and green grasses.
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The fire extended rapidly to the exposures on the C-side of the building and started to run the cocklofts of the building.
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There are common cocklofts, large areas, and myriad void spaces through which fire can travel.
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But Aedituus cried to him, Hold, hold, honest friend! strike, wound, poison, kill, and murder all the kings and princes in the world, by treachery or how thou wilt, and as soon as thou wouldst unnestle the angels from their cockloft.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The house comprised a kitchen, a little hall, lower parlour, pantry, two cellars, a hall above stairs, an upper parlour and four chambers with cocklofts above.
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The cocklofts have mostly been converted in later times, but they are beautifully preserved in this house.
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There are three reasons for unusually rapid fire spread in a cockloft of a multiple dwelling or row of stores.
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The fire swept through the halls of the second floor in the north wing of the school, and flashed through the cockloft above the classrooms.
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I took up my abode at the French hotel in the Calle de la Niveria, and was allotted a species of cockloft, or garret, to sleep in, for the house was filled with guests, being a place of much resort, on account of the excellent table d'hote which is kept there.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
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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.
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
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Almost as though planning a coordinated attack, the fire swept through the halls of the second floor in the north wing of the school, and flashed through the cockloft above the classrooms.
Our Lady of the Angels (OLA) School Fire, December 1, 1958
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Heated fire gases and flame in a concealed space can travel upwards several floors and break out in a cockloft.
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Queer up there in the cockloft, alone, with stops and locks and keys.
Ulysses
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I took up my abode at the French hotel in the Calle de la Niveria, and was allotted a species of cockloft, or garret, to sleep in, for the house was filled with guests, being a place of much resort, on account of the excellent table d’hote which is kept there.
The Bible in Spain
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The cockloft was accessible from the service area.
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Since poor people cannot afford the high rent prices, they have to jostle in bed-size apartments and partitioned rooms in the cocklofts of aged buildings.
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Due to the height of the ceiling and the fact that there were double cocklofts, the decision was to mount a defensive fire fighting operation.