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
He was perturbed, and Millie had set the match to the powder train of his emotions and energies.
From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell
Then, with caution, he pushed ahead, until he gained once more the road leading back to the temporary camp occupied by the powder train and the detachment guarding it.
From At the Fall of Port Arthur Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Stratemeyer, Edward
It was obviously no car to support the special powder train story: its end was broken open wide, and the sixteen men within were waiting in readiness to swing off and fight.
From Tom of the Raiders by Bishop, Austin
