castle-builder

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"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

"I'm but an indifferent castle-builder, papa," said she, laughing softly.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James

Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

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

He had suddenly become an aeriel castle-builder, and all his mind was absorbed in contemplating the magnificent structures that were rising up at the creative touch of imagination.

From The Good Time Coming by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)