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
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
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
