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
The reader should, however, be informed, that this castle-builder was not a youth of strict veracity; his confession upon this occasion, as upon others, might not have been sincere.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria
With the true genius of a political castle-builder, Mr. Falconer began to add story after story to the edifice, of which he had thus promptly and successfully laid the foundation.
From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria
Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
He had suddenly become an aeriel castle-builder, and all his mind was absorbed in contemplating the magnificent structures that were rising up at the creative touch of imagination.
From The Good Time Coming by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
