master spirit
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The master spirit of this society is the convict Harcamone, in solitary confinement, awaiting the guillotine.
From Time Magazine Archive
To read great pieces of literature together in the family is to put a personal consecration about the genius-crowned work of the master spirit.
From The American Country Girl by Crow, Martha Foote
The President of the State Society for this year is Mr. John Delafield, long a master spirit among our Wall-street financiers, and for some years President of the Phenix bank.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
Mr. Disraeli has over and over again flung in the face of Mr. Gladstone the fact that Bright, and not he, is the master spirit of Radicalism.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
All other beings who approached Goethe either were, or had been, or might be, more or less modified by the action of that universal and master spirit.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
