image-breaker

Example Sentences

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In attacking the masters, irreverent youth is only defending itself; the iconoclast or image-breaker is a Stylite who erects himself as an image, an icon.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)

In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.

From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Any of us who dare love the iconoclast would be one if we dared sufficiently, and in this work I surely was an image-breaker, for the old house was more than it seemed.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

I do not know how the remarks of the image-breaker may strike others, but I feel that they put me on my defence with regard to much of my teaching.

From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Once in every half a century it is needful that the image-breaker should come along and knock on the head the brainless images of cant.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey