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

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

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

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

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