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
The man’s fury had set fire to the powder train.
From The Hound From The North by Bull, Charles Livingston
If Gran'fer had not come I think now I would have told her then, for the simple sentence had set light to a powder train in my breast.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Litsey, Edwin Carlile
Right about here-away is where they made out to cross," he announced; "the whole enduring passel of 'em, ez I reckon—our seven varmints and the hoss-captain's powder train.
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
