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I don't see how you could be objective when you see the Syrian regime deploy gun-boats to shell residential areas, or when you see tanks firing at apartment blocks.

Nehad Ismail: Al Jazeera's Role in Toppling the Dictators One by One Nehad Ismail 2011

At the mouth of the Yalu the Japanese had two small gun-boats, two torpedo-boats and four small steamers armed with Hotchkiss guns.

JACK LONDON'S WAR 2010

I don't see how you could be objective when you see the Syrian regime deploy gun-boats to shell residential areas, or when you see tanks firing at apartment blocks.

Nehad Ismail: Al Jazeera's Role in Toppling the Dictators One by One Nehad Ismail 2011

If we really want to deal with piracy, we need to stop its root cause - our crimes - before we send in the gun-boats to root out Somalia's criminals.

Johann Hari: You Are Being Lied to About Pirates 2009

… The Japanese Government is so terrified that they have sent four gun-boats to Shanghai.

The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009

It was when "an impressive military arsenal of aircraft carriers and gun-boats" was building up in the Persian Gulf in preparation for "a major bombing operation .... against Iraq" at a future designated time.

The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda 2008

It was when "an impressive military arsenal of aircraft carriers and gun-boats" was building up in the Persian Gulf in preparation for "a major bombing operation .... against Iraq" at a future designated time.

The Bush Administration's Secret Biowarfare Agenda 2008

There they lie, a paltry squadron enough in modern eyes; the largest of them not equal in size to a six-and-thirty-gun frigate, carrying less weight of metal than one of our new gun-boats, and able to employ even that at not more than a quarter of our modern range.

Westward Ho! 2007

There in 1856, we find him in ‘a terribly busy state, finishing up engines for innumerable gun-boats and steam frigates for the ensuing campaign.’

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Then as soon as it came across their mooring cables, its duty was to slide for a little way along them in a friendly manner, lay hold of them kindly with its long tail, which consisted of a series of grappling-hooks buoyed with cork, and then bringing up smartly alongside of the gun-boats, blow itself up, and carry them up with it.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004