Powder Magazine

Powder Magazine, Powder House, or Powderworks may refer to:

  • Gunpowder magazine
  • Magazine (artillery), the general term

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Famous quotes containing the words powder and/or magazine:

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

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    —Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)