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