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
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 W. (William) Stebbing
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 David Hume
"I'm but an indifferent castle-builder, papa," said she, laughing softly.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
