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

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)

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

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 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Now that there is a greater firmness and solidity in the conceptions, which are the objects of conviction and assurance, than in the loose and indolent reveries of a castle-builder, every one will readily own.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David