air castle
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Was it an "air castle," or was it "a Turkish Babel?" asked the wags.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bud started out next day with three different samples for the assayer, and an air castle or two to keep him company.
From Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower
I'm sorry to shatter your air castle," said Tom; "but for the life of me I can't see how it will work.
From Tom Swift and His Air Scout, or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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
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 William Holmes McGuffey
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