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
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
"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
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 Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
