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 reader should, however, be informed, that this castle-builder was not a youth of strict veracity; his confession upon this occasion, as upon others, might not have been sincere.
From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria
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
Its idea is modified differently from the loose reveries of a castle-builder: But no distinct impression attends every distinct idea, or conception of matter of fact.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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
