castle-builder

Example Sentences

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"I want it to be over with," says Wing, a self-described obsessive-compulsive castle-builder, "but I'm not going to walk away from it."

From Forbes • Dec. 10, 2010

Now that there is a greater firmness and solidity in the conceptions, which are the objects of conviction and assurance, than in the loose and indolent reveries of a castle-builder, every one will readily own.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

Our own steep and towering rock invited to its top the castle-builder of a remote age, and then the exposed country around began to gather itself together under the shelter of the bourg. 

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks,   A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes, A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks,   And towers that touch imaginary skies.

From The Children's Own Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It is confusing for a biographer to be required to keep at once independent and in unison the poet, statesman, courtier, schemer, patriot, soldier, sailor, freebooter, discoverer, colonist, castle-builder, historian, philosopher, chemist, prisoner, and visionary.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)