Laputa

How To Use Laputa In A Sentence

• Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
• They utilize instead the services of a "Flapper" to hit them in the face with a bladder full of dried peas when another Laputan wishes to communicate something. Erica Jong: Lost in Laputa
• Once Laputa checked me with his hand as I was going to speak, and in silence we crossed the kloof of a little stream. Prester John
• It belongs to Utopia, you know; and they say that, although it is now on the level of the earth, it used once to be a flying island -- the same which was formerly known as Laputa, and which was first visited and described by Captain Tales of Fantasy and Fact
• Having first championed them 10 years ago, the Barbican brings back Ghibli classics, from Laputa: Castle In The Sky and My Neighbour Totoro the best one for young viewers, right up to previews of their latest, Arrietty, a version of The Borrowers. This week's new film events
• He was a Christian minister called Laputa, and he was going among the tribes from Durban to the Zambesi as a roving evangelist. Prester John
• Laputan, who passed his days in extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, could have reached such a height of delirium as to rave about the time when a man should paint his miniature by looking at a blank tablet, and The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
• The pirates in Laputa go through a similar transformation.
• 'Did you ever come across a great big native parson called Laputa? Prester John
• “Imagination, Fancy, and Invention” as desirable faculties in which the Laputan mathematicians (in spite of their love of music) were wholly lacking. Collected Essays