Emperor of China, his room was ornamented with a picture of Confucius, before which he burned scented wood; and hanging over it was an air-castle, with the motto, "God is Love." ❋ Caroline C. Leighton (N/A)
Many an air-castle did we rear that night which the lapse of years have laid in the dust. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
She established that fact to her own satisfaction ere long, although she was no great arithmetician, and she sighed as she built and demolished an air-castle in her own mind. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet I can not quite agree that the habit of air-castle building is pernicious. ❋ Marion Foster Washburne (N/A)
If he was building an air-castle he has since placed a firm foundation under it. ❋ Harry A. Lewis (N/A)
The college girl cannot marry at this impulsive, air-castle age. ❋ George W. Bain (N/A)
For so far has his air-castle mounted that, were Molly to inhabit a hovel, that hovel to him would be home. ❋ Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (N/A)
She stood there wide-eyed and silent among the ruins of her little air-castle. ❋ Unknown (1928)
And before the aprons were done, Margarita had a fine air-castle up: herself and Alessandro married, a nice little house, children playing in the sunshine below the artichoke-patch, she herself still working for the Señora. ❋ Unknown (1921)
During my long life I have seen many a day-dream and many an air-castle go the way of Santa Claus and the wonderful "Lamp of Aladdin." ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
And any morning before breakfast you can build another, and vastly superior, air-castle on the vacant land behind the woodshed. ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
But this is not for one moment admitting the contention of the lords of literature that the air-castle has a monopoly of joy, while the seven rooms and bath have ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
It is doubtless easy to amuse one's self in a wayside air-castle of an hundred suites, equipped with self-starting servants, a Congressional Library, a National Gallery of pictures, a Vatican-ful of sculpture, with Hoppe for billiard-marker, ❋ Robert Haven Schauffler (1921)
It is a true romance, which no air-castle can quite equal or fiction conceive. ❋ Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 (1920)
I pitied Stella now ineffably, not for the maiming and crippling of her body, for the spoiling of that tender miracle, that white flower of flesh, but for the falling of her air-castle, the brave air-castle which to her meant everything. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"Eh, and who purchased the woman first?" de Gâtinais spat at him, viciously, for the Frenchman now saw his air-castle shaken to the corner-stone. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"Eh, and who purchased the woman first?" de Gatinais spat at him, and viciously, for the Frenchman now saw his air-castle shaken to the corner-stone. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
But, if not pleasurable, they may perhaps be stated to be complacent, expansive, or of air-castle type. ❋ Unknown (1916)
One thing he knew beyond all doubt, and that was that he must be careful or he would see his air-castle blow up in small fragments and come down a hopeless ruin. ❋ Unknown (1914)
If Billy Louise had not been down there in that other world, he would scarcely have given it a thought, so absorbed was he in the delightful task of putting a good, solid foundation under his favorite air-castle. ❋ Unknown (1914)
