cockloft

1 When the fire reaches the cockloft, the top of the roof explodes and shoots out flames.

2 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.

3 This little cockloft does not fill the whole of this upper story.

4 The alley hugged itself in the joyful sensation that it had a miser and his hoard in the cockloft.

5 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. 

6 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?

7 Officials say two firefighters fell when the building’s cockloft collapsed.

8 Often the cockloft is empty, in those which Nature hath built many stories high.

9 They found themselves in a long narrow cockloft, not more than six feet high at the highest, and insufferably hot. 

10 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.

11 Ah, well! there are piles of dusty memories in the old cockloft still untouched, but I shall rummage no more to-night.

12 Update City box 341 - 109 & 111 Chestnut St. Fire extended into the cockloft of both buildings.

13 In a balloon-frame structure, a fire that starts in the basement and gets into the chase space can run all the way to the cockloft—the cramped, unusable space between the topmost ceiling of a building and the roof—without any fire-stop in between.

14 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.

15 A few roughly fashioned seats and tables, and a ladder staircase, leading upward to an attic or cockloft, completes the inventory of the interior.

16 "Had n't you better come down out of that cockloft?" said the marquis, dropping his eyes.

17 This hasty and guarded conversation was carried on between two plebe cadets who had met in a corridor of the academy "cockloft."

18 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.

19 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.

20 And terrified us so We sprang up to the cockloft, she and I. Then out he hurled, decamping with the rugs.

1 顶楼

loft attic garret

2 阁楼

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3 顶层

tablet loft