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
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
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
The reader should, however, be informed, that this castle-builder was not a youth of strict veracity; his confession upon this occasion, as upon others, might not have been sincere.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Maria Edgeworth
"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
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