Veldt

The word "veldt" is Dutch, and the word "illimitable" is Double Dutch. ❋ Unknown (1905)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Six major land masses characterized uniformly with low mountains, plains areas studded with grasses and small trees, best described as a veldt. ❋ D. C. Fontana (1990)

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. ❋ Louis Creswicke (N/A)

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. ❋ L. March Phillipps (N/A)

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. ❋ L. March Phillipps (N/A)

To advance was impossible; each depression in the veldt was a sheet of water, in places inches deep. ❋ Lionel James (1913)

Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veldt was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

South African veldt, which is said to give a greater feeling of infinity than the ocean even. ❋ Unknown (1886)

The Rand gold fields are a stupendous marvel, and they make all other gold fields small, but I was not a stranger to gold-mining; the veldt was a noble thing to see, but it was only another and lovelier variety of our Great Plains; the natives were very far from being uninteresting, but they were not new; and as for the towns, I could find my way without a guide through the most of them because I had learned the streets, under other names, in towns just like them in other lands; but the diamond mine was a wholly fresh thing, a splendid and absorbing novelty. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

Can you use the word "veldt" in a drought-stricken area? ❋ Unknown (2010)

We were led by members of this Department to believe that the Boer was a cowardly kind of veldt pariah, a degenerate offshoot of a fine old parent stock. ❋ A. G. Hales (N/A)

As one labours in London and sinks into a dream, remembering the hills wherein he spends a lonely summer, among Westmorland's fells and by the becks, so the Boer, called cityward, looks back upon the wide and lonely veldt which is never too wide and never lonelier to him than to any of the beasts he loves to hunt. ❋ Morley Roberts (1899)

It was a peculiar sight -- taking into consideration the circumstances -- to see these people on the "veldt" feasting and of good cheer, each trying to amuse the other, under the fluttering ❋ P. [Illustrator] Van Breda (1892)

So on the London "veldt" there were lions, wild horses (perhaps striped like zebras), three kinds of rhinoceroses -- two of which were just like the common black rhinoceros of ❋ Unknown (1882)

One morning, to my joy and excitement, I came upon the spoor of a herd of them, I was alone and some miles from camp; our cleverest Kaffir hunter was on the sick list as well as Thomson, so that as a matter of fact I had been obliged to go alone -- a kind of veldt influenza had got hold of the other two, and neither of them felt worth two penn'orth of toffee. ❋ Various (1873)

"Hey have you read [the book] The [Veldt]?" "No but I like the song The Veldt by [deadmau5]" ❋ Sussywussy The 3rd (2023)