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  • The rock in the hand and the high-velocity projectile in the gunbarrel are unalike in strategic weight, but they are identical in the fear and desperation, the bluster and the numbness they represent.

    Michael Winship: A Guide Through Israel's No-One Land 2010

  • Mr Heston you can go back to polishing your gunbarrel and blowing crap up on the farm …

    Think Progress » Guns used in a “series of commando-style bank robberies 2006

  • The top of the pass is sunny, and I see the clouds closing in behind me in the rear-view as I blast down the gunbarrel to Saguache.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Isaac 2008

  • Although I compose this with a smile on my face, this is about as funny as promoting democracy with a gunbarrel.

    Think Progress » Ney to plead guilty today, may resign. 2006

  • In the afternoon he went for a long walk out along the lake, taking the cut-off gunbarrel and the stock with him in the bag.

    No Country For Old Men McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- 2005

  • She worked until the hair was sleek and had the sheen of a new gunbarrel.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • She worked until the hair was sleek and had the sheen of a new gunbarrel.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • "You don't understand the procedure, Cardigan," said Rudy, the gunbarrel swinging up again.

    Tek Money Shatner, William 1995

  • A gunbarrel morality, evidently, with social justice for the formerly oppressed, oppression for the formerly prosperous.

    Politics and Morality Wright, George T. 1967

  • Sergeant Calder took us as straight as a gunbarrel across fields and ditches to the stone road that ran from the unfortunate headquarters of the 3rd Brigade which we could still see was a lurid mass of flames in the distance.

    "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders John Allister Currie

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