Lieutenant Mangar told me how he lay wounded behind a bush watching these German gunners, not 10 yards from him, pouring lead into our retreating parties of men.
Major Stevens, who was second in command of the 2nd Battalion, was charging down a Turkish trench when he saw a Turk about 2 yards from him in a dugout.
When about 1,500 yards from a line of flags on the left front marking the enemy's position, the guns fired four or five shells, and hundreds of men were seen to rise up and bolt, leaving only their standards visible.
In the inshore squadron the flag-ship Invincible was anchored for the most part 1,300 yards from Mex, and was kept broadside to the wind on one side, and to the batteries on the other, by a kedge carried out to windward.
I am not sure whether Palmer spoke to me at that time; but he went past me in the direction of his own house, which is about 200 yards from Hawkins’.
Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant SHEE: My house is about 200 yards from that of the prisoner.
Not 200 yards from my tent, I was startled by a snort and then by the sight of two rhinos dashing across my path some fifty yards away.
As I am writing, there are two pairs building in a rose-bush about 3 yards from me.
Not more than 20 yards from where my tent stood, there is a deep ravine clothed on both banks with a dense jungle of the larger kind of nettle (Girardinia heterophylla: such nettles too!
It crossed the river not more than 200 yards from where I came to it, and led up to the mouth of a wide draw in a southeasterly course.
I was not more than one hundred yards from camp, and after looking a little bit to make sure, I said in a strong voice that "I believed I saw five thousand buffalo.
They were now 200 yards from me, moving along in an ordinary walk.
I began pumping lead at them as fast as I could load and fire, until they were over 200 yards from me and not an animal fell.
Just at the forks we found a few red berries, and to see if I could find some more I just went about 20 yards from them.
Presently a slow movement disturbed the half-burnt herbage, and I could make out with difficulty some form creeping silently forward about 40 yards from my position.
I do not think I was more than 4 or 5 yards from it when it suddenly turned its head to the right, and I immediately took a shot behind the ear.
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