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
“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
He passes to-day in building an air castle for to-morrow, or in writing yesterday's elegy; and he would flyaway this hour, but that a cage, necessity, keeps him.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
And then, some day— There came the air castle again, floating alluringly before his eager imagination, like a mirage lake in the desert.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
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.
