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 Hume, David

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 Lever, Charles James

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 Edgeworth, Maria

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