castles in air

Yet amid all the wreck and ruin of her tumbling castles in air, a glad little thrill made itself felt.

The phantoms have flown which I cherished; The dreams which delighted have passed; My castles in air have all perished— I grieved o’er the fall of the last.

"Some looked for building great houses, and such pleasant situations for them as themselves had fancied, as if they would be great men and rich all of a suddaine; but they proved castles in air."

Let us listen, as in duty bound, to what the elders are saying first, for they are already building castles in air for the boys and girls to inhabit.

Such were the castles in air, the Alnaschar-visions in which Mary indulged, and which she was doomed in after days to expiate with many tears.