powder train
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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
As he sent home the dagger his foot struck the lantern, overturning it, and sent the iron case with its burning contents rolling across the floor toward the powder train.
From The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Bentley, Charles S.
"They are to escort a powder train through the mountains."
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
This powder train must go through to General Beauregard at once!
From Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War by Robins, Edward
