powder train
Example Sentences
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"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
Quick as the flash of a powder train, the uproar spread to South America.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the right moment Uncanoola touched off his powder train and cut in with a clear field for his rescue of Dick and me.
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
George had heard enough of the conversation between the two young Southerners to know that they were more than curious about the supposed powder train.
From Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Edward Robins
He was perturbed, and Millie had set the match to the powder train of his emotions and energies.
From The Heart of Unaga by Ridgwell Cullum
