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
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 Maria Edgeworth
Its idea is modified differently from the loose reveries of a castle-builder: But no distinct impression attends every distinct idea, or conception of matter of fact.
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 Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
