From the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1871).

From Lullabies of Many Lands by Alma Strettell, 1894.

From The Path on the Rainbow by George Cronyn, 1918.

"A. Staal. War monument, Rotterdam, 1946."

From In a Car of Gold by P. L. Gray, 1902.

From More Tales from the Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1915.

"Soaring on the air.  Nothing can touch us."  Aug. 5, 1904.

From The Vision, or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri, 1916.

Not to alarm you, but for every cloud (b) there is an anti-cloud (a), and no anti-cloud has a silver lining.  From the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1871).

Here's a precursor to retrieving data stored in "the cloud."  From Applied Biophysics by Norman Howard-Jones, 1949.

From Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children by Caroline Norton, 1847.

From Roncesvalles by Richard Wharton, 1812.

From Le Diable Amoureux, Roman Fantastique by Jacques Cazotte, 1845.

Here are precursors to the mysterious contrails in the sky, from the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution (1871).