cloud-cuckoo-land

Updated: May 7, 2025

So writes this sensible girl to one of her mother's kindred in England; in a letter which escaped the German censor. She might indeed wonder! To have deliberately planned a Continental war with Germany, and Germany's 8,000,000 of soldiers, without men, guns, or ammunition beyond the requirements of an Expeditionary Force of 160,000 men, might have well become the State of Cloud-Cuckoo-Land.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The War on All Fronts: England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend

Here we were surprised to find Cloud-cuckoo-land; we were prevented from landing by the direction of the wind, but learned that the King's name was Crookbeak, son of Fitz-Ousel. I bethought me of Aristophanes, the learned and veracious poet whose statements had met with unmerited incredulity.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

Canterbury came down from the "cloud-cuckoo-land" in which Selwyn twitted her with dwelling. Both sides gained a better understanding of one another, and agreed to stand together on the ground of the original constitution. Amongst the Maoris also the martyrdom of Volkner had its influence.

H. T. (Henry Thomas) Purchas - A History of the English Church in New Zealand

Stirner is the German thinker who is carried away by the unchecked flow of his thoughts far from the path of the actual life into a misty region of "Cloud-cuckoo-land," where he actually remains as the "only individual," because no one can follow him. There is no trace in Stirner's book of any intention of being an agitator.

Ernst Viktor Zenker - Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory