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

"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

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

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 Pan-American congress, then projected, now met in Washington, and Blaine, as its master spirit, presided over and guided its deliberation through its session of five months.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various