A storehouse (as a compartment on a warship) where weapons and ammunition are stored.
1Abandoning the fight he rushed into the powder magazine and fired it.
2And you have hold of the rails round the old powder magazine.
3He went in despair towards the powder magazine, with a lighted match.
4It was an hospital, built by the side of a powder magazine.
5A huge shell hit the powder magazine and tore my ship asunder.
6When it fell it was as if a powder magazine blew up.
7The explosion at Issy arose from a torpedo, not a powder magazine.
8The first bloodshed would be the match in the powder magazine.
9The actual announcement of the hanging was a match to a powder magazine.
10A lucky shot from the buccaneers had found the powder magazine.
11The recourse to metaphysics is like throwing a match into the powder magazine.
12The British artillery, he quickly surmised, must have somehow struck a powder magazine.
13If she were the flame, she had removed herself from the powder magazine.
14He then attempted to bribe a sergeant to blow up the powder magazine.
15And, now I recall it, I saw him yesterday near your powder magazine.
16They've fired the powder magazine and blown it to the sky.'
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