veld

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Negotiations, then, must not be unduly hurried while the veld was a bare russet-coloured dust-swept plain.

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  • Ten years ago these amateurs of the veld were ludicrous; now, however, they are becoming an absolute nuisance both to the governments and to the natives. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • As for the veld, there are no words to describe it. —  Diary of a Soldier of Fortune
  • He didn't abuse the veld, the camping-out, the foot-slogging, the primitive people. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
  • I thought of you trading on the Mashonaland veld, and passing unscathed and unafraid over it by night and day you that had nothing to be ashamed of. —  Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales
  • "He has either fallen into one of the streams or got out beyond the hedge into the open veld--which seems impossible, somehow. —  Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
 

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