As a word-painter the young Churchill has not only verve but visual acuteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 - Presentation Speech] Reference

He has a poetical nature, is a word-painter, and, therefore, indulges in the license of the poet and painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference

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 crudity of his word-painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Don't tell me you thought it up all by yourself, you word-painter!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunker Bean] Reference

Ruskin he failed to meet also, for the distinguished word-painter was ill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891] Reference

I hate his short sentences, like a dog barking; we want a word-painter here, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Endymion] Reference

There is not even anything especial in the appearance of the place to recommend it to the ready pen of the word-painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cigarette-Maker's Romance] Reference

South, and I fancied I could perceive a shade of irritation at the course our great "word-painter" had thought fit to pursue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Civil War in America] Reference

"No," said the great word-painter, "soon your stock of litchen and daises would be exhausted, and you must become monotonous; but adhere to nature, and you will have the variety of nature.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Partisan Leader: A Novel...] Reference

Yet Hawthorne is not a word-painter like Browning and Carlyle, but obtains his pictorial effect by simple accuracy of description, a more difficult process than the other, but also more satisfactory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne] Reference

On the popular lecture platform as well as in the pulpit Dr. Drew is a renowned word-painter, and during the course of the year he receives literally scores of invitations to speak at varied functions both here and elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbitt] Reference

Some whose tatters were the most conspicuous feature of their costume, I am sure would have charmed me if I had been a painter; as a mere word-painter I find myself wishing I could give the color of their wretchedness to my page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

No professional word-painter has ever put a dramatic scene, a contention, a battle, such as those which were everyday occurrences in Scotland at that time, upon paper with more pictorial force, or with half the fervour of life and reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets] Reference

And whenever his local habitation is pictured in poetic imagery, for edification or in appeal to the devout fancy, the devout word-painter, as a matter of course, brings out before his auditors 'imagination a throne with a profusion of the insignia of opulence and power, and surrounded by a great number of servitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference

Quintilian, Statius, and Pliny the younger, represent a more restricted development; the first of them is the typical rhetorician, but of the better class; the second is the brilliant improvisatore and ingenious word-painter; the third the cultivated and amiable but vain, common-place, and dwarfed type of genius which under the Empire took the place of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference

A renowned word-painter, and during the course of the year he receives literally scores of invitations to speak at varied functions both here and elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Babbitt] Reference

According to the same authority, he "was not a deep thinker, but he was a great word-painter ... he has the inspiration as well as the contortions of the Sibyl, the strength as well as the nodosities of the oak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Carlyle] Reference

He is no mere word-painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frederic Mistral]