leading character

Of course all the boys wanted to know about Dan Baxter, for he had been a leading character at the Hall for many years.

Does the passage refer to any particular time in the history of the children of Israel, or of some leading character?

But they must not be allowed to push the leading character in the whole business right out of the review.

Beside the strange adventures of the leading character, the simple efforts of earthly man are accounted as naught.

Who can say things so sweetly, so smoothly, so sonorously, as the leading character or characters in a play?