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
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
Mr. Grenville was the master spirit of the British ministry.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
As it came closer, high on the poop, standing alone like its master spirit, she discovered her lover.
From Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
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 Katherine Cecil Thurston
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