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
Put light to the powder train, and thou and I will depart in the white schooner.
From The Pirate Woman by Dingle, Aylward Edward
The conductor was finally persuaded to allow Andrews to go ahead with his powder train.
From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler
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
