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
From this time on Clark was, by common consent, the moving master spirit in all the daring plans of his adopted state.
From Stories of Old Kentucky by Purcell, Martha Grassham
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 state machinery of Austria has grown rusty, and it would be hard even for a master spirit to set it in motion.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar
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
