单词 | cockloft |
例句 | The combustion happened when oxygen met extreme heat contained in a common loft space beneath the roof connecting the businesses on the block, which firefighters call a “cockloft.” A Dramatic Backdraft, Captured on Video 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z Officials say two firefighters fell when the building’s cockloft collapsed. Building fire injures 2 firefighters, displaces 45 residents 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The fire then spread to other businesses through a common cockloft, a part of the roof that is shared by adjoining buildings. Five-Alarm Fire in Bronx Disrupts Subway Service 2013-05-02T13:02:37Z They live in little “tilts”—log huts of one large square room, with “bunks” at each end for the women-folk, and a “cockloft” above for the men and lads. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z One pertinacious fellow actually ensconced himself for several days in the cockloft, from which he watched Crompton at work in the room below, through a gimlet hole he bored in the ceiling. Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science 2011-07-19T02:00:21.280Z The cockloft above his room, which was reached by a ladder, had windows which were really only loopholes and from there he could better see into the tangle that sheltered his enemies. The Law of Hemlock Mountain In a single-room cabin there usually is a cockloft, reached by a ladder, for storage, and maybe a bunk or two. Our Southern Highlanders Oh, you needn't give yourself no trouble about loneliness and that sort of thing," said the elderly woman; "before to-morrow night the whole house may be crowded from cockloft to potato-cellar. The Squirrel Inn The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft. The Battle with the Slum Often the cockloft is empty in those whom Nature hath built many stories high.—Fuller: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Peering out through first one and then the other of the loopholes of the cockloft, he waited, and it seemed to him that he waited eternally. The Law of Hemlock Mountain A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy They were hunted from cocklofts to cellars by the minions of the law, and the foulest jails were often their only resting-place. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges The audience numbered nearly two thousand, pit, gallery and cockloft being filled to overflowing. Shakspere, Personal Recollections This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft." Frank Merriwell's Chums He knew nothing of the picture he made with clothing torn from his scrambling rushes up-ladder and down-ladder and his crouching and shifting among the rough nail-studded spaces of the cockloft. The Law of Hemlock Mountain Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high. Familiar Quotations They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot. Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Intellect in a very Tall One.—"Ofttimes such who are built four stories high, are observed to have little in their cockloft." The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 "It is an attractive programme, and I am a little tired of this cockloft," answered Bruslart. The Light That Lures Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 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? Mr. Scraggs The number of negroes upon the place," wrote Robinson, "is just about 700, occupying 84 double frame houses, each containing two tenements of three rooms to a family besides the cockloft…. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime A number of women were ascending to, and descending from, this cockloft, each carrying on the upward journey a pot of prepared lead and acid, for deposition under the smoking tan. The Uncommercial Traveller This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story. The Light That Lures 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 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! Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale 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. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 In other cocklofts, where the pots were being exhumed, the heat of the steaming tan was much greater, and the smell was penetrating and peculiar. The Uncommercial Traveller And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs. The Frogs "Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes. Malcolm Turn to the poor: their megrims are as strange; Bath, cockloft, barber, eating-house, they change; They hire a boat; your born aristocrat Is not more squeamish, tossing in his yacht. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Queer up there in the cockloft, alone, with stops and locks and keys. Ulysses |
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