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 Edwards, Harry Stillwell
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)
He passes to-day in building an air castle for to-morrow, or in writing yesterday's elegy; and he would flyaway this hour, but that a cage, necessity, keeps him.
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes
P.S.," in which Julia wrote, "Do, Fan, use your influence with the old man and make him fix up the infernal old air castle.
From Tempest and Sunshine by Holmes, Mary Jane
