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Definition of Cloudlands
1. cloudland [n] - See also: cloudland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloudlands
Literary usage of Cloudlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"... Till the quaint town of New Orleans, Its Spanish and its French demesnes.
Like some vague mirage of the mind, In Memory's cloudlands lay defined; ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"... incantation of Coleridge's talk ; but a bit of pavement that he could feel
firm under foot was more to the mind of Lamb than all the cloudlands going. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... adapt himself more and more to not less of that descriptive and al- those
cloudlands wherein he do- lusive power and wealth of imagery lighted to abide. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Gone as evanescent cloudlands. — MATHILDE BLIND. Gone, like traces on the deep,
Like a spectre grasp'd in sleep, Dews inhal'd from morning glades, ..."
5. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"... uses the actual only as a jumping-off place into cloudlands and dreamlands.
And any ideal, which is arrived at thus per saltum, is bound to reveal its ..."
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