powder train
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Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America.
From Time Magazine Archive
"With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions."
From Time Magazine Archive
The man’s fury had set fire to the powder train.
From The Hound From The North by Charles Livingston Bull
"If the Indians are gone, it means that the powder train has come and gone, too."
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde
The English had attempted to blow it up when they could not save it, but their powder train was wetted, and they failed.
From The Reign of Mary Tudor by Ernest Rhys
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