air castle
Example Sentences
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Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is this: that when we finish building an air castle we seldom live in it after all; we sometimes even forget that we ever longed to!
From New Chronicles of Rebecca by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
And then, some day— There came the air castle again, floating alluringly before his eager imagination, like a mirage lake in the desert.
From Skyrider by Fischer, Anton Otto
Moreover, to teach school had long been her secret ambition, the solid foundation of many an air castle.
From Rim o' the World by Fischer, Anton Otto
She had fancied a little house in a suburb, or a cosy apartment in the city, and a lump came into her throat as her air castle dissolved into utter ruin.
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
