image-breaker
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
