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

It would have demanded but a slight stretch of fancy to picture him as his satin-coated great-grandfather grown to a dissipated maturity, as he stood there, the master spirit in this house of fallen greatness.

From The Gambler A Novel by Thurston, Katherine Cecil

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

"Do you believe," said Napoleon, "that it would be impossible to regenerate Austria if the master spirit who is wanted were found?"

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar

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)