image-breaker

Example Sentences

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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

He appeared to be more of an image-breaker than he really was.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks

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

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

To his contemporaries he appears as an image-breaker, but to the clearer vision of to-day he stands an unshakable barrier to lawless iconoclasm.

From How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Krehbiel, Henry Edward