cloud-world

Lurid lights hung over the crown at night-time, and lightning flashed in dazzling sheets through the cloud-world.

Plotting in Pirate Seas Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

Justice and Love and Punishment and Forgiveness were personified and dramatized and a whole cloud-world of fancy built up.

The Chief End of Man George Spring Merriam 1878

Those who try it with that idea find the cloud-world cold and uncomfortable, and not at all the rosy, gold-tinted region it looked at a distance.

What a Young Woman Ought to Know Mary Wood-Allen 1874

That cloud-world was a pageant in itself, as grand and more gorgeous perhaps than the mountains would have been.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

That cloud-world was a pageant in itself, as grand and more gorgeous perhaps than the mountains would have been.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

With wild shapes this cloud-world seem'd to mimic in air,

Lucile Owen Meredith 1861

And then a whole cloud-world of love, freedom, fame, simple, graceful country luxury steamed up across my brain, to end -- not, like the man's in the "Arabian Nights," in my kicking over the tray of China, which formed the base-point of my inverted pyramid of hope -- but in my finding the contents of my plate deposited in my lap, while I was gazing fixedly at

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

The child grasps at the picture-books, the Dryad grasped at the cloud-world, her thought-book.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

The clouds over and under one another, but the snow-covered mountains peeped forth gloriously from among them, It was a riven cloud-world which drove past, -- the wild chase with which the daylight had disguised itself.

O. T. a Danish Romance 1840

The volumes of which it was composed were perceptible, by translucent lines and fissures; but the mass, as a whole, seemed as solid, bulky, and ponderous in the cloud-world as the mountain was on earth.

Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834