Usage examples (18)

• As a word-painter the young Churchill has not only verve but visual acuteness.
• He has a poetical nature, is a word-painter, and, therefore, indulges in the license of the poet and painter.
• Among the characters one -- 'Charles Tewphunny' -- strikes us as a reality; a vigorous, earnest, cheerful nature, clear and fine even through the obscurity and occasional...
• Don't tell me you thought it up all by yourself, you word-painter!