cloudland

Consequently the [Greek: to] characteristic, of which in German cloudland so noisy a proclamation is made as of some transcendental discovery, is a mere inference from the very idea of a literature.

The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

I looked down upon a real world; you were caught up in a beautiful cloudland and shut away from me.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

He did not answer my knock the other day, and I came upon him with the neglected proofs under his elbows and his absent gaze directed through window and out of doors to some rosy cloudland beyond my ken.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Below was cloudland and storm, a great drift of tumbled weather going hard away to the north-east, and the air about him was clear and cold and serene save for the faintest chill breeze and a rare, drifting snow-flake.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

If perhaps it was not so strange and magnificent as the sunlit cloudland of the previous day, it was at any rate infinitely more interesting.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

It would be easy to leave them in their native cloudland, where they figure so prettily — pretty like flowers and innocent like dogs.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

How far above me seemed that leafy cloudland into which I gazed!

Green Mansions 2004

I care so little for the cloudland of this life that I will offer you the speech for the prosecution.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

I care so little for the cloudland of this life that I will offer you the speech for the prosecution.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

But none of these change scene and character in three miles of walking, nor have so mellow a sunlight nor so diversified a cloudland, nor confess the perpetual refreshment of the strong soft winds that blow from off the sea as our Mother England does.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003