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 was not easy to take up the old routine and forget the air castle.
From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt
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
This was enough to cause nearly every one to look upon it as a bubble or air castle.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
