Major Baillie had a narrow escape, his horse having been shot under him, while his water-bottle was also struck by a bullet.
Sir George White had a narrow escape, as the Boers turned their artillery on the Staff, and their first shell came screaming within fifteen yards of the General.
Lieutenant Brook (9th Lancers) on the day of the reconnaissance had a narrow escape, and experiences more exciting than pleasurable.
Colonel Sir Henry Rawlinson, of the headquarters staff, while aloft making a reconnaissance had a narrow escape.
He laughed heartily at my narrow escape; for I declared that I should never have felt in a pleasant humor again if that rush of muddy water had fallen on me.
I wonder your Grace can take your narrow escape so lightly," said the keeper.
The frontiersman had certainly had a narrow escape, and he determined in future to be more careful.
The bold rancher and frontiersman had had a narrow escape, but he had a still narrower escape, some time later.
This was certainly a narrow escape, but another adventure—some days later—was about as thrilling as the last.
I have had a narrow escape of losing my life; for one of them caught me in the leg as I was climbing this tree, and had I let go my hold, the whole herd would have been upon me, and I should have been cut to pieces in a few seconds.
He himself had had a narrow escape from a party of assassins, among whom he distinguished the voices of some of his own men; but he had cut down several of them, and then, favoured by the darkness, had effected his escape.
One night in midwinter Brown Brother, in spite of the safety of his fortress, had a narrow escape.
One day toward the end of the summer Flat Tail had a narrow escape.
One day he had a narrow escape from a huge snapping turtle which entered the pool on a foraging expedition.
I was too tired to go after them, but two days afterwards had a narrow escape; as I was walking along up the river-bank looking for guinea-fowl, I came plump upon two.
I had a narrow escape, a lighted petroleum lamp which swung above getting off its hook and falling on my head, upsetting all the petroleum over me.
Not half so much as I have been frightened myself," replied the Major; "we have all had a narrow escape.
General Thwaites was visiting the line at the time and had a narrow escape himself, while his A.
More than once he was shot at, and more than once he had a narrow escape at the hands of some hostile sniper, but this appeared to have no effect on him, and after such an escape he was just as reckless as before.
They had an unpleasant time and were more than once heavily shelled, on one occasion having a narrow escape.
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