castle-builder
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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
She was no castle-builder; there were no schemes, plans, designs, in her mind; no airy structures of future happiness employed fancy as their architect.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
"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
I was a great castle-builder once, but time has cured me of the habit, and I do not like, even by a pledge, to forestall the morrow.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
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