castle-builder

Example Sentences

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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

Our own steep and towering rock invited to its top the castle-builder of a remote age, and then the exposed country around began to gather itself together under the shelter of the bourg. 

From Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Whyte, Alexander

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

He becomes a castle-builder, constructing imaginary colleges and states, and searching out the businesses in which they are to be employed, and the schemes by which they are to be regulated.

From Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author by Godwin, William

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