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