air castle
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Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags.
From Time Magazine Archive
She built many an air castle for them as well as for herself, furnishing both, impartially, with Elaine’s old mahogany and the simple furniture Dick was making out of Uncle Ebeneezer’s relics.
From At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern by Reed, Myrtle
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)
All daydreaming builds this air castle; all ambition has this as its goal.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
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.
