image-breaker
Example Sentences
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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
Such was his simplicity of speech and manner, such his transparent sincerity, that it was next to impossible to quarrel with the gentle image-breaker.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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)
The image-breaker is exalted above my Lord Bishop in all his glory of lawn sleeves and piety in uniform by men like Wanless and his friends.
From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone
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
