While millions of kids will construct sand creations all summer for nothing, sand advisers have built practices charging individuals and companies for sand castle-building classes, as well as partnering with charities that sponsor sand-sculpting competitions. ❋ Joel Millman (2011)
At the same time, as Mr. Goodall emphasizes, even the most forbidding fortresses had also been intended as homes: Given the strains of his job, King John needed somewhere to relax, and his castle-building schemes included comfortable living quarters at Portchester, one of his favorite residences. ❋ Stephen Brumwell (2011)
If castle-building was in your blood, eventually you'd come to love more durable materials apt to make your dream come true. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At Seaside, there are three art galleries and seventeen restaurants, pizza and pottery parties, sand castle-building tournaments, even a repertory theater. ❋ Paco Underhill (2010)
Castles appeared during the reign of King Stephen of England because they were the best way to defend the land and there wasn't a strong king to put any limits on castle-building. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Well, we were but forty years old between us; and, for my part, I never found any harm come of castle-building, but a great deal of pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2006)
They won their first Sun-Sentinel annual sand castle-building contest in high school. ❋ Stephanie Cooperman For ForbesLife Magazine (2006)
Mason's signature style helped him win his first sand castle-building contest in high school. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Morton let the old woman enjoy her day-dreams and castle-building during moments of such pleasure, and deferred till some fitter occasion the communication of his purpose again to return and spend his life upon the Continent. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Edward was, in short, in the fair way of creating a goddess out of a high-spirited, accomplished, and beautiful young woman; and the time was wasted in castle-building until, at the descent of a steep hill, he saw beneath him the market-town of — —. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Of course, Isadore would come; and then — then — in the far distance, something else would come, something of which in her castle-building she had not yet developed the form, of which she did not yet know the bearing, or the manner of its beauty, or the music of its voice; but as to which she was very sure that its form would be beautiful and its voice full of music. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Up to this time I had continued that practice of castle-building of which I have spoken; but now the castle I built was among the ruins of that old house. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The savouring of animal existence; the passive enjoyment of mere sense; the pleasant languor, the dreamy tranquillity, the airy castle-building, which in Asia stand in lieu of the vigorous, intensive, passionate life of Europe. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A soft tap on her door interrupted her castle-building. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1995)
Of course, Isadore would come; and then -- then -- in the far distance, something else would come, something of which in her castle-building she had not yet developed the form, of which she did not yet know the bearing, or the manner of its beauty, or the music of its voice; but as to which she was very sure that its form would be beautiful and its voice full of music. ❋ Unknown (1993)
Occultists say that all power results from the continual exercise of active mentation and all weak-mindedness is the direct outcome of this wool-gathering, castle-building, inattentive habit which is an extension of passive mentation into useless channels of thought-force. ❋ A. P. Mukerji (N/A)
Being of a hopeful, castle-building temperament, I had sanguinely thought that I would meet with employment there at once; and, be able to master in some unknown, mysterious way, the great art of money-making, on the very instant that I landed in the New World! ❋ Unknown (N/A)
[Jennay], quit [castle-building] and [come on]! We are gonna be late! ❋ SumaDemDer (2013)
