hero-worshipper

• “I've never been a hero-worshipper but your piece about John Cooke, the man who prosecuted Charles I, changed my mind.”

  The Guardian: Letters: Revolutionary guard

• “I talked a great deal, and enthusiastically, as a hero-worshipper might talk, and it was obvious that he was my hero.”

  Chapter 20: A Lost Oligarch

• “I find this especially endearing, as a long time fan/hero-worshipper from childhood.”

  Around Pittsburgh

• “She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly.”

  Main Street

• “I call him desperate, erratic, marginal, a "blind hero-worshipper" caught in paranoid fantasies with a fixated hatred for the world.”

  Judging Pound

• “I'm no hero-worshipper, as you may have gathered, and my view of the military virtues is that the best thing you can do with 'em is to hang them on the wall in Bedlam - but I know cold fact when I see it.”

  Flashman And The Dragon

• “I'm no hero-worshipper, as you may have gathered, and my view of the military virtues is that the best thing you can do with 'em is to hang them on the wall in Bedlam — but I know cold fact when I see it.”

  Flashman and the Dragon

• “And so, after a half confession of his previous shortcomings, and sorrowful adieus to his tutor, from whom he received two beautifully-bound volumes of the Doctor's sermons, as a parting present, he marched down to the Schoolhouse, a hero-worshipper, who would have satisfied the soul of Thomas Carlyle himself.”

  Tom Brown's Schooldays

• “The tubby little journalist was no hero-worshipper.”

  Swirling Waters

• “He does not attach himself to individual men, -- he is no hero-worshipper.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847

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