cloudlands

The general movement was carried too far by extreme spirits, but on the whole it was a salutary and much-needed protest against the limitation of knowledge within airy cloudlands where no true knowledge was to be reached, and of emotion within transcendental aspirations where the deep reality of human relations faded into dim distance.

Voltaire 2007

Kingsley, in his “Hereward the Wake,” truly says, the “vastness gives such cloudlands, such sunrises, such sunsets, as can be seen nowhere else in these isles.”

Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter

But Irene's eyes were on the sunset; on the slowly fading colours of the cloudlands overhead.

The Cow Puncher Robert J. C. Stead 1919

His heart was in the highlands, the cloudlands; his heart was not there.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Etched where the lands and cloudlands touch and die

Flint and Feather E. Pauline Johnson 1887

As if Captain Gancy's petition had been heard by the All-Merciful, and is about to have favourable response, the next morning breaks clear and calm; the fog all gone, and the sky blue, with a bright sun shining in it -- rarest of sights in the cloudlands of Tierra del Fuego.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850