idolater

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Although hated by Orthodox Jews as a Hellenistic idolater, Herod expanded the Temple and adorned it with marble and gold.

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And this coolheaded didact of "epic"theater and "alienation" effects was a sentimental idolater of Charlie Chaplin movies.

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For Ibsen, as later for an Ibsen idolater named James Joyce, exile was creation's catalyst.

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One Per�n idolater had dragged a great, 100-lb. wooden cross from seaside Mar del Plata 300 miles away.

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Facing not only death, but extinction, this idolater of life had, as one physician expressed it, held together his shattered vitality by sheer force of will, until healing set in.

From She Buildeth Her House by Comfort, William Wistar