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
On the following day the powder train moved onward once more.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
Put light to the powder train, and thou and I will depart in the white schooner.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
Two days later, the powder train was attacked by a detachment of the Russians, who seemed to spring out of the very ground.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
