powder train
Example Sentences
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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 powder train was at rest outside of the village and the men were scattered here, there, and everywhere.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
The man’s fury had set fire to the powder train.
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
Our command was ordered down here to look after a powder train.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
