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
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
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
The country people tell you its origin was supernatural; and some writers ascribe it to that great castle-builder, Henry de Newburgh.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 by Various
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
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