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
So, with gathered forces, with flashing eyes and voice that rang like a trumpet, he figuratively fired the powder train.
From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.
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
"If the Indians are gone, it means that the powder train has come and gone, too."
From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Lynde, Francis
