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
What are you running a powder train for?
From Tom of the Raiders by Bishop, Austin
Holding the long gunner's match lighted in his hand, he waited for the exact second when the schooner's bow was lifted on a wave and swinging in the right direction, then touched the powder train.
From The Black Buccaneer by Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren)
Only the officer in charge of the powder train knew the destination of the precious stores.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
