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
The giant, steam, is made a slave to man. and is seen at work on the mill—the mine—the forge—and rail; and everywhere marks of the master spirit, industry, are visible in our town.
From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous
He is and ever has been a master spirit in his county, using all his influence to further the interests of his adopted home.
From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by William Henry Carman Folsom
One to be the master spirit, one to be the slave awoke, One to shape itself obedient to the fiery words we spoke, Flame and flood and stars and mountains from the primal waters broke.
From The Divine Vision and Other Poems by A.E.
The gang of villains, deprived of its headquarters, and deprived of its master spirit, speedily fell to pieces.
From Penelope Brandling A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee
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