I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something.
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
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