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Powerhouse

noun

A highly energetic and indefatigable person. Synonyms: ball of fire, fireball, human dynamo.

A team considered to be the best of its class.

An electrical generating station. Synonyms: power plant, power station.

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"Powerhouse" Quotes from Famous Books

... {FN34-5} Whoever realizes himself as a son of God, even as Babaji has done, can reach any goal by the infinite powers hidden within him. A common stone locks within itself the secret of stupendous atomic energy; {FN34-6} even so, a mortal is yet a powerhouse ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... Grady's pseudoyoga might have ruined them for good. But give them around a year to settle out and they'll be all right. Then they'll get the call. It's been worth the trouble. Jones is good medium grade—and that Greenfield! She'll be a powerhouse before she's half developed. Easily the most promising prospect I've come ...

— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz

... there was more than the eye could see. He was picturing a great powerhouse, steel derricks, capped pipes that led off to whirring turbines, generators, strings of cables stretching out on steel supports into the distance, a wireless transmitter—and all of this the result of his own vision, of the stream he would bring ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

... months of Grady's pseudoyoga might have ruined them for good. But give them around a year to settle out and they'll be all right. Then they'll get the call. It's been worth the trouble. Jones is good medium grade—and that Greenfield! She'll be a powerhouse before she's half developed. Easily the most promising prospect I've come across ...

— Ham Sandwich • James H. Schmitz