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
If his daughter should be like himself if she should ruin his hopes, throw down the air castle he had built—should love unworthily, marry beneath her, deceive and disappoint him!
From Dora Thorne by Brame, Charlotte M.
Bud started out next day with three different samples for the assayer, and an air castle or two to keep him company.
From Cabin Fever by Bower, B. M.
She built many an air castle for them as well as for herself, furnishing both, impartially, with Elaine’s old mahogany and the simple furniture Dick was making out of Uncle Ebeneezer’s relics.
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
She had stolen unwittingly the air castle which Lite had been three years building, but he did not say a word about it to Jean.
From Jean of the Lazy A by Bower, B. M.
