How To Use veldt In A Sentence
- Devons 'wake, passing their wounded across that slopy field of veldt, and the flat to the base of the hill, it was a sweating, breathless climb up; the men were already cheering on the top above my head. Impressions of a War Correspondent
- Forged discharge papers, wildebeests stampeding patrols - these tales are told casually around campfires and on drives across the veldt.
- Quantities of prisoners were made, and over a thousand burghers were said to be slain -- in fact, the veldt was a complete parquet of dead Dutchmen. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
- The veldt is a void to us, all darkness, and it hides a threat which, as it may fall anywhere, must be guarded against everywhere. With Rimington
- Forced to flee, he heads north through the equatorial jungle and across the grassy veldt toward the semicivilized kingdom of Kush. Conan of Cimmeria
- They were drawn from regions such as Soweto, Pretoria, and Johannesburg and more obscure dorps like Winterveldt.
- Shell holes, shattered doors and broken windows, telegraph poles lying about, with their hairy whiskers twisting raggedly over the veldt, farmhouses burnt to cinders, hotels that had once been smart in their way now weevilled by shrapnel -- all these things surrounded the encamped division which so brilliantly had crossed the river. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
- Here and there a solitary tree rose to break the gently rolling monotony of the veldt: spiny acacias, sword-leaved dragon trees, emerald-spired lobelias, and thick-fingered, poisonous spurges. Conan of Cimmeria
- A pride of lions on the veldt in Africa will allow a solitary African to pass close by without harm and so will a leopard in a tree, but they will kill hunters.
- Scattered amongst the rock kopjes and rolling veldt of the north are memorials to other wars from the region's bloody past.
