Colonel Buller was unfortunate enough to lose an eye from the splinter of a shell which exploded 100 yards away.
The Turks, only 80 yards away, opened fire with about twenty rifles on to the light.
From it in a south-easterly direction ran the long spur on which--some 2700 yards away--was situated the village of Biyuk Anafarta.
To this fire E company disdained even to reply, and the disgusted Boers, finding their overtures received with apathy, rode off, six of them being observed passing through a gap in the hills quite 2,500 yards away.
Carlow is coming in at racing speed, but sees the others when fifty yards away, and lies down automatically.
It was known to us as Tank Redoubt and lay opposite Abbas Apex in our own line and some 1600 yards away.
I was digging some potatoes in a garden, and one burst about 200 yards away.
We could see the Germans lying in their trenches more than 1000 yards away: we could see their helmets, which showed up like a lot of mushrooms.
I happened to raise my head, and I saw a large fire about 500 yards away, and I thought if I could get beside it I should feel better.
Then I remembered that I still possessed half a cigarette, so I managed to strike a match and finish that just as my look-out man saw the German infantry advancing on us about 800 yards away.
Somerset House, Covent Garden Market, Drury Lane Theatre, and the Gaiety Theatre and Restaurant all suffered more or less, and two of the bronze footguards guarding the Wellington Statue at Hyde Park Corner were blown many yards away.
Meantime, the Kronprinz Wilhelm had with equal swiftness dashed north, receiving only a few shots from the Selkirk, as she passed her, 8000 yards away.
It was only safe to work when the sentry was at the far end of his beat; that is to say, about 15 yards away.
Long was staggering about in a very dazed condition near the machine, and the Germans were about 50 yards away.
They were only about 150 yards away, and started after us led by a fellow with a cart-whip.
The end of the room farthest from the door was mainly occupied by two large windows looking out over a strip of grass which sloped gradually down to the moat, 15 yards away.
At last they halted a moment some 250 yards away on the northeast, where the slope of the hill was more gradual and showed them all up.
This was when they were some 1,800 yards away, about on a level with the end of Incidentamba.
Yes, it will be just when they reach that broken ant-hill about 400 yards away that I shall give the word "Fire!
Pare relates the case of a soldier who received a blow from a halberd, penetrating the left ventricle, and who walked to the surgeon's tent to have his wound dressed and then to his own tent 260 yards away.
Beaumont reports the history of an injury in a man of forty-five, who, standing but 12 yards away, was struck in the orbit by a rocket, which penetrated through the spheroidal fissure into the middle and posterior lobes of the left hemisphere.
The Germans were 1,300 yards away and a small river ran between their lines and ours.
Good luck came along in the shape of a Frenchman and he helped me to headquarters some 500 yards away.
The crew then pulled towards the steamship Porthkerry, which had seen the explosion and was standing by about 200 yards away on the port beam.
The submarine was only 200 yards away, but she continued to fire, killing five men and wounding a sixth, although the trawler had surrendered.
One of the submarines was on the port quarter 200 yards away, and as these two men were coming down the falls, a torpedo was fired, which passed under the boat and struck the ship's side.
In a few more minutes these men would have been safe, and those on board the submarine, which was only 200 yards away, must have known this perfectly well.
The top was blown about 20 yards away, but little damage was done.
The boiler was torn up into several pieces, but the main portion remained flattened out on the seating, while some smaller pieces were sent 250 yards away.
The top was thrown 60 yards away, and the bottom left on furnace.
There are two huts, one by the edge of the lake, the other about 20 yards away, and it is the latter which we occupy.
In the midst of this detour they suddenly came in sight of two other bucks, about 300 yards away, much finer animals than the first two; in fact, they had the best heads the Skipper ever saw.
However, there is another one not more than forty yards away, so we shall not be much troubled by its loss.
The fish was racing up with the tide some 150 yards away, but the rope was fouled, or Billy bungled, and the result was a smash.
By the time I had crossed the creek, the bear was well ahead and looked about 300 yards away.
Coming out on to an open grassy plain, there he was feeding quietly about 200 yards away.
Foka, was the dominating ridge of Zeitun, some hundreds of feet higher than Foka and under 1800 yards away; to the N.
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