Cloudland

It stretched beyond anything before seen in Cloudland; it exceeded all the legends of neighboring wood-piles and wood-spells related by deacons and lay delegates in the late Consociation.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Days came and went, and spring flowers and autumn leaves succeeded each other, and boys and girls, like the spring flowers and autumn leaves, came and went in Cloudland Academy, but there was always Miss Nervy Randall, not a bit older, not a bit changed, doing her spinning and her herb-drying, working over her butter and plaiting Mr. Jonathan's ruffled shirts and teaching her Virgil class.

Oldtown Folks 1869

There were in Cloudland only about half a dozen families of any prestige as to ancestral standing or previous wealth and cultivation.

Oldtown Folks 1869

THE picture of our life in Cloudland, and of the developing forces which were there brought to bear upon us, would be incomplete without the portrait of the minister.

Oldtown Folks 1869

As to station and position, she was as well known and highly respected in Cloudland as the schoolmaster himself: she was one of the fixed facts of the town, as much as the meeting-house.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Certainly, of all the days that I look back upon, this academy life in Cloudland was the most perfectly happy.

Oldtown Folks 1869

THE academy in Cloudland was one of those pure wells from which the hidden strength of New England is drawn, as her broad rivers are made from hidden mountain brooks.

Oldtown Folks 1869

The morning that we were to leave she went around bidding good by to everybody and everything, for there was not a creature in Cloudland that did not claim some part in her, and for whom she had not a parting word.

Oldtown Folks 1869

Check out a series of articles by the late S. J. Perelman called Cloudland Revisited.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Re-examining Television of the 1960s and 1970s: 2007

Bore stars "... is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of" Cloudland "by

Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various