Air castle meaning

Noun: air castle

Air castle meaning:

• Absentminded dreaming while awake

Synonyms: reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, castle in the air, castle in Spain
Derived forms: air castles

Quotations:

1. Washington Irving – There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
2. Johnny Tremain – Although Johnny might have been more cordially received by Merchant Lyte, he was satisfied enough with his welcome to build up air castles.
3. Conrad von – If your view is confirmed, our project will have been an air castle.
4. Douglas – And his air castles had been blown away as by the wind.
5. Anna W.Ford – Again a gentle “thank you” from Cecil, his tired eyes still seeking air castles among the red and gray embers of the fire.

Sample sentences:

1. He builds the most fantastic air castles, and, charmed by his own fancies, he says to himself: “How beautiful, ah, how beautiful!”
2. But the walls of his air castle began to grow more solid.
3. Like all boys, he was fond of building air castles.
4. He really knew they were air castles, for at bottom he was hard-headed, not easily taken in even by his own exuberant imagination.
5. Many air castles the poor fellow thus built, but to see them fall.
6. Moreover, to teach school had long been her secret ambition, the solid foundation of many an air castle.
7. He could not forget his tumbled air castles.
8. “I could not possibly like anything better,” replied Herbert, “but it seems too good to be true—more like an air castle than a fact.”
9. Just a dream, a fancy, an air castle.
10. No one can measure the importance to a child of taking his air castles away from him.
11. I have been a dreamy girl building air castles for the future, but I would have worked hard to 187 make them real.
12. His gorgeous air castles vanished like a train of fleeting clouds.
13. With a crash his air castles tumbled about his ears and the ecstasy of his mood gave way to apprehension and unhappiness.
14. Helen’s screams mingled in the pandemonium, for Helen had been brought hack from her romantic air castle with a rush.
15. There he sat, with his little chin in his hand, building air castles.
16. For a few moments I exercised my imagination, I built air castles, and pictured his reappearance on the scene.
17. He tried to put it out of his mind, but the captivating air castle would not down.
18. In boyhood parlance today, he “flocked by himself,” building air castles which in part were to become reality.
19. Akers sailed away in high hope from Port Colborne, they probably built the fairy air castles which were doomed to totter and fall before night.
20. Life lies before her, and with sweet seriousness she builds her air castles of the future.
21. With this sage reflection, he dismissed Tom from his mind, which very naturally turned again to the air castle which had been so ruthlessly upset.
22. Of course the denouement shattered many sumptuous air castles but it left the profession the richer by a faithful portrayal.
23. He built air castles as he watched and listened; fabrics furnished after the manner of the Hilliard home and peopled by two kindred souls.
24. I sat before the door long after supper, building air castles, in all of which the fair stranger held a place.
25. I deal in facts, Mr. Procter, not in air castles.
26. He forgot his beautiful air castle, and even let Annie Lee slip from his mind for the time being.
27. Once more she was in a realm of air castles as she leaned on the stone coping and gazed off into the moonlight.
28. Julia said, after she had, to please Johnny and not her practical self, built several air castles with the legacy.
29. Our air castles are often within our grasp late in life, but then they charm not.
30. They would lie about in the sands all day, building air castles.