cocklofts

He rummaged old cuddies, closets, vaults, and cocklofts, and pried into every recess of the Chancery, the Land

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 Various

Lodgings were scarce owing to the ball, and Mercier had waited for the villains, had taken them to a lodging next his own, nothing more than adjoining cocklofts, but with this advantage, that part of the woodwork dividing them could be easily removed.

The Light That Lures Percy James Brebner 1893

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 John Lord 1852

Hopping up ladders, and across planks, and on elevated perches, until I was uncertain whether to liken myself to a bird or a brick - layer, I became conscious of standing on nothing particular, looking down into one of a series of large cocklofts, with the outer day peeping in through the chinks in the tiled roof above.

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

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 Charles Dickens 1841

There were cocklofts in all stages; full and empty, half filled and half emptied; strong, active women were clambering about them busily; and the whole thing had rather the air of the upper part of the house of some immensely rich old Turk, whose faithful seraglio were hiding his money because the sultan or the pasha was coming.

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

Was it aristocratical to be confounded with creatures who lived in the cocklofts of Grub Street, to bargain with publishers, to hurry printers 'devils and be hurried by them, to squabble with managers, to be applauded or hissed by pit, boxes, and galleries?

Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Their information concerning the temper of the public mind was chiefly derived from the worst members of the Whig party, from men who were plotters and libellers by profession, who were pursued by the officers of justice, who were forced to skulk in disguise through back streets, and who sometimes lay hid for weeks together in cocklofts and cellars.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Roman Catholic priests, who had, during the preceding week, been glad to hide themselves from the rage of the multitude in vaults and cocklofts, now came forth from their lurking places, and demanded possession of their old apartments in the palace.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

Uds daggers and scabbards, if a leaguer of our days had been twenty-four hours, not to say so many months, before it, without carrying the place and all its cocklofts, one after another, by pure storm, they would have deserved no better grace than the Provost -

The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801