While Napoleon languished on his lonely island, his great conqueror, the plenipotentiary of his own Government, the most trusted counsellor of many sovereigns, the adviser of foreign Administrations, was universally acknowledged as the mastermind of Europe.
"Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War"
G. F. R. Henderson
But they are sister branches of one original mother, which require to be reduced to consistency and harmony by some mastermind, and then a very copious and powerful language might be formed.
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
It was in this shameful manner that that mastermind was habitually referred to below stairs.
"A Damsel in Distress"
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse