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

He was alternately the worshipper and image-breaker of etiquette, ministerial and opposition party thereof, as his vanity dictated.

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

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

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