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
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 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
Our own steep and towering rock invited to its top the castle-builder of a remote age, and then the exposed country around began to gather itself together under the shelter of the bourg.
From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte
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
