Synonyms:
Bunyan, Paul_Bunyan
Meaning: a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada; "Paul Bunyan had a blue ox named Babe"; "the lakes of Minnesota began when Paul Bunyan and Babe's footprints filled with water"
Synonyms:
Bunyan, John_Bunyan
Meaning: English preacher and author of an allegorical novel, Pilgrim's Progress (1628-1688)
Usage examples
Butler's genius was not creative like Shakespeare's or Bunyan's.
But let us now pass on to Pliable, as he so soon and so completely discovers himself to us under John Bunyan's so skilful hand.
Paul and Bunyan are of the same school of moralists and stylists; Butler went to school to the Stoics, to Aristotle, and to Plato.
Butler will lie on our table all winter beside Bunyan; the bishop beside the tinker, the philosopher beside the poet, the moralist beside the evangelical minister.
Bunyan will people the house for us once it is built, but Butler lays bare for us the naked rock on which men like Bunyan build and beautify and people the dwelling-place of God and man.
This is the highest and best use to which our so expressive word 'character' has ever been put, and the use to which it is put when we speak of Bunyan's Characters partakes of the same high sense and usage.
And here, again, Butler steps forward at our call with his key to our own and to all Bunyan's characters in his hand, and in three familiar and fruitful words he answers our question and gives us food for thought and solemn reflection for a lifetime.