castle-builder
Example Sentences
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No castle builder of the days when artillery had come into use would have set this fortress on the shore beneath the Pizzofalcone, whence it could be so easily bombarded.
From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.
Robert Count of Bellesme and Ponthieu, the great castle builder of his time, became Earl of Shrewsbury and Arundel in 1098.
From Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by Little, A. G. (Andrew George)
A fighter and a castle builder; a sort of rough-edged Peter Pan.
From The Trail of the White Mule by Bower, B. M.
His skill as a castle builder was as striking as his prowess in battle or his cautious wisdom in council.
From Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir
