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Grammar : Noun

Définition of prime mover

noun cause

Example sentences :

Well, here was the arch-revolutionist, the prime mover of them all.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

Something prompted him that Jake was to be the central figure, the prime mover.
Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum

Now, I have any amount of that, and I was really the prime mover in most of Mascarin's schemes.
Extract from : « The Champdoce Mystery » by Emile Gaboriau

Simcoe was almost certainly the prime mover in the legislation of 1793.
Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 » by Various

If those shutters ever open I think you'll have to be the prime mover.
Extract from : « The Opened Shutters » by Clara Louise Burnham

Gisby has been the prime mover in it—the chief snake in the grass.
Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Second Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood

And the prime mover in the conspiracy had not yet been tried.
Extract from : « The Honor of the Name » by Emile Gaboriau

Then he is not the prime mover of all these ingenious thefts?
Extract from : « The Place of Dragons » by William Le Queux

Motion, therefore, demands an external source or prime mover.
Extract from : « The Development of Metaphysics in Persia » by Muhammad Iqbal

And in all that was done during the next minutes Naomi was prime mover.
Extract from : « The Boss of Taroomba » by E. W. Hornung

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