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
Another crisis in his life came a year after the downfall of his air castle, and just as the south was preparing to enter upon her fatal struggle.
From Sons and Fathers by Harry Stillwell Edwards
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 Myrtle Reed
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 Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
It was not easy to take up the old routine and forget the air castle.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Helen Hunt Jackson
