castle-builder

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"I want it to be over with," says Wing, a self-described obsessive-compulsive castle-builder, "but I'm not going to walk away from it."

From Forbes • Dec. 10, 2010

The country people tell you its origin was supernatural; and some writers ascribe it to that great castle-builder, Henry de Newburgh.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 by Various

Its idea is modified differently from the loose reveries of a castle-builder: But no distinct impression attends every distinct idea, or conception of matter of fact.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks   A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes, A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks,   And towers that touch imaginary skies.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

With the true genius of a political castle-builder, Mr. Falconer began to add story after story to the edifice, of which he had thus promptly and successfully laid the foundation.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Edgeworth, Maria