master-spirit

“If he was the master-spirit of the enterprise, directing the putting them on board or detaining them after they were put on board, and if he did this himself or through his men, if the Spanish Captain was only a cover and the defendant was really the man,” he was guilty as charged.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

“If he was the master-spirit of the enterprise, directing the putting them on board or detaining them after they were put on board, and if he did this himself or through his men, if the Spanish Captain was only a cover and the defendant was really the man,” he was guilty as charged.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

And so he, being a master-spirit, planned and builded the smaller Redoubt, being aided thereto by four millions, who also were weary of the harass of the monsters; but until then had been wanderers, because of the restlessness of their blood.

The Night Land 2007

“If he was the master-spirit of the enterprise, directing the putting them on board or detaining them after they were put on board, and if he did this himself or through his men, if the Spanish Captain was only a cover and the defendant was really the man,” he was guilty as charged.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

“If he was the master-spirit of the enterprise, directing the putting them on board or detaining them after they were put on board, and if he did this himself or through his men, if the Spanish Captain was only a cover and the defendant was really the man,” he was guilty as charged.

Hanging Captain Gordon Ron Soodalter 2007

Bonaparte's marshals are great men, who act under the guidance of an omnipotent master-spirit.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Daud yielded immediately; but Farraj, who, for all his soft form, was of whipcord and much the master-spirit of the two, laughed from his first rock, sat out the second sullenly, and gave way with a bad grace only when ordered to a third.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

My visit was mainly to find the yet unknown master-spirit of the affair, and measure his capacity to carry the revolt to the goal I had conceived for it.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

Frank Kermode is generally regarded as the best practicing critic in England today, free of the polemical or theoretical limitations that have been ascribed to Leavis or Richards and credited with the power, which Arnold required of good criticism, "to ascertain the master-spirit in the literature of an epoch."

à la Mode Poirier, Richard 1963

In the ten thousand Soldiers 'Aid Societies which at one time or another probably existed in the country, there was in each some master-spirit, whose consecrated purpose was the staple in the wall, from which the chain of service hung and on whose strength and firmness it steadily drew.

Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience Mary C. Vaughan