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
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 Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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 Henry Edward Krehbiel
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
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