air castle
Example Sentences
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Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is this: that when we finish building an air castle we seldom live in it after all; we sometimes even forget that we ever longed to!
From New Chronicles of Rebecca by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
“I could not possibly like anything better,” replied Herbert, “but it seems too good to be true—more like an air castle than a fact.”
From The Boy Broker Or, Among the Kings of Wall Street by Munsey, Frank Andrew
She had fancied a little house in a suburb, or a cosy apartment in the city, and a lump came into her throat as her air castle dissolved into utter ruin.
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
From the strong sweep and stroke and virile outline of a Brangwyn or the gnomesque possibilities of a Rackham, the great mountain softened to the ethereal air castle of a Parrish.
From Jungle Peace by Beebe, William
