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Definition of Haylofts
1. hayloft [n] - See also: hayloft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haylofts
Literary usage of Haylofts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Electrical Engineer (1891)
"When the Polytechnic Institution was first established in the haylofts, etc., of
the old King's-mews, now the site of the picture gallery at Charing Cross, ..."
2. Unknown Switzerland: Reminiscences of Travel by Victor Tissot (1914)
"In that jumble of barns and haylofts and storehouses, human dwellings are only
distinguished externally by two or three openings with glass in them, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The wide world was their cloister; sleeping in haylofts, grottos, or church
porches, they toiled with the labourers in the fields, and when none gave them ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"The profession of letters was ruined by that libel of the " Dunciad." If authors
were wretched and poor before, if some of them lived in haylofts, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"His studio was composed of a set of rooms and haylofts in the mews at'the back
of Harley Street, all thrown into one long gallery. ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"If authors were wretched and poor before, if Rome of them lived in haylofts, of
which their landladies kept the ladders, at least nobody came to disturb ..."
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