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

Now that there is a greater firmness and solidity in the conceptions, which are the objects of conviction and assurance, than in the loose and indolent reveries of a castle-builder, every one will readily own.

From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David

I was a great castle-builder once, but time has cured me of the habit, and I do not like, even by a pledge, to forestall the morrow.

From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

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 Children's Own Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth