powder magazine
Example Sentences
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On this date in 1884, a powder magazine on the outskirts of Phoenix exploded, shattering windows throughout the town.
From Washington Times • Apr. 29, 2020
General Gage knew that a powder magazine was stored in Concord, Massachusetts, and on April 19, 1775, he ordered troops to seize these munitions.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
Perhaps some of those attending who were acquainted with the collector cast their minds back to the powder magazine built by Vauban on a Breton island where Mr. Rullier displayed his objects.
From New York Times • May 28, 2010
No one would be venturing out with a powder magazine on New Year’s Day.
From Newsweek
In 1598, as Mr. Atkinson tells us in his preface to the lately published volume of the Calendar of Irish State Papers, the cellars of the Dublin Law Courts were used as a powder magazine.
From What was the Gunpowder Plot? The Traditional Story Tested by Original Evidence by Gerard, John
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