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
But the walls of his air castle began to grow more solid.
From Doubloons—and the Girl by Forbes, John Maxwell
She had stolen unwittingly the air castle which Lite had been three years building, but he did not say a word about it to Jean.
From Jean of the Lazy A by Bower, B. M.
But he did not, because chance threw him a bit of solid material on which to rebuild his air castle for Helen May.
From Starr, of the Desert by Bower, B. M.
Helen's screams mingled in the pandemonium, for Helen had been brought hack from her romantic air castle with a rush.
From Peggy Stewart at School by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
