image-breaker
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He appeared to be more of an image-breaker than he really was.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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 Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
In that case our friend the image-breaker has begun operations in another quarter of London.
From The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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