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

There is a veritable master spirit shown in the chapters in which the author portrays for us the enigmatic and seductive Mona Lisa.

From Contemporary Russian Novelists by Persky, Serge

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 Lee, Vernon

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