How To Use Veldt In A Sentence
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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
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Forged discharge papers, wildebeests stampeding patrols - these tales are told casually around campfires and on drives across the veldt.
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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
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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
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Forced to flee, he heads north through the equatorial jungle and across the grassy veldt toward the semicivilized kingdom of Kush.
Conan of Cimmeria
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They were drawn from regions such as Soweto, Pretoria, and Johannesburg and more obscure dorps like Winterveldt.
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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
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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
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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.
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Scattered amongst the rock kopjes and rolling veldt of the north are memorials to other wars from the region's bloody past.
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Six major land masses characterized uniformly with low mountains, plains areas studded with grasses and small trees, best described as a veldt.
Vulcan’s Glory
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The word "veldt" is Dutch, and the word "illimitable" is Double Dutch.
A Miscellany of Men
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“The Veldt”, also by Bradbury, which chronicled in grisly fashion the dangers of holodeck technology.
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Colonial troops were valued for their ability to “shoot and ride,” and they performed well on the veldt, which is not unlike Gippsland, the Wimmera, or the Riverina.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The dry grass of the veldt, which is always catching fire, was burning between us and the Boers; long lines of low smouldering fire, eating their way slowly along, and sending volumes of smoke drifting downward, obscuring the view.
With Rimington
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Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain.
The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct
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The source of the alarm that has my colleagues chittering on the termite mound like meerkats on the veldt who have espied a Martial Eagle coursing aloft is a report in EU Reporter by Chris White:
Archive 2008-01-13
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The veldt grass was on fire and he could smell the smoke on the wind.
THE LAST RAVEN
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Venator had walked the veldt among lions and Cape buffalo, scaled a glacier, shot rapids, disarmed more than one dement gone violent.
The Stars Are Also Fire
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Founded during the 1886 gold rush, Johannesburg had grown by the second half of the last century into a Manhattan of tower blocks amid the endless African veldt.
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To advance was impossible; each depression in the veldt was a sheet of water, in places inches deep.
On the Heels of De Wet
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After going some miles, I was pleased to see the waggons turning off the slippery track on to the veldt and outspanning.
A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition
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Of course you'll say there would be no traffic worth bothering about on the bare and sun-scorched veldt, but there's no other word that rhymes with maffick.
Reginald
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And then it was gone: giant, empyreal prisoner, and the light that had framed them, leaving behind only the veldt and the scandalized night.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness
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The veldt, the rough track, a dozen more huts, his vehicle - nothing else.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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It broke from Hanuman's throat as it must have broken upon the grassy veldt of Afarique a million years ago.
THE BROKEN GOD
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The park has three distinct sections of lush green jungle and African-style veldt that look like they came straight out of a National Geographic documentary.
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We are the injured wildebeest limping appetisingly on the veldt
Archive 2008-01-20
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The smallness of her universe melted away and she saw herself traveling — through exotic lands she so longed to see, to the coasts of the Mediterranean and the Adriatic seas, to the vast deserts of the African continent, where the lions sprawled among the trees, and elephants tromped the veldt.
Second Chance
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Before this weary conflict came to a close, nearly every Boer family was gathered in from the perils and privations of the war-wasted veldt; and so, while nearly 30,000 burghers were detained as prisoners of war at various points across the sea, their wives and children, to the number of over 100,000, were tenderly cared for in English laagers all along the line of rails or close to conveniently situated towns.
With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back
