1 Above it was a loft which Cy Bogart and Earl Haydock, young brother of Harry, used as a den, for smoking, hiding from whippings, and planning secret societies.
2 Cy was no longer the weedy boy who had sat in the loft speculating about Carol's egotism and the mysteries of generation.
3 I climbed up into the loft and threw down the hay for her, while she unharnessed her team.
4 He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
5 One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 6 All you know about poetry is what you wrote up on the slates in the yard and were going to be sent to the loft for.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 7 He and his fat young brother Leo, the idler, held the loft of the stable while we tried to carry it by storm; or we fought a pitched battle on the grass.
8 But they dragged him out of the room, and up the stairs into the loft: and here, in a dark corner, where no daylight could enter, they left him.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE FIR TREE 9 She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she had slept in the loft of some stable.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS