veldt

• Was there no method of taking him with them for a month or two's shoot in the bush-veldt, and sending him back by some returning expedition before the serious part of the undertaking was entered upon? —  The Sign of the Spider
• To advance was impossible; each depression in the veldt was a sheet of water, in places inches deep. —  On the Heels of De Wet
• Yet, if I am any judge, and I have known men in many lands, our friend of the veldt is as clever and as crafty as any Oriental I have yet mixed with Now for the Australian fight. —  Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front
• The high veldt, as said before, is exempt from that danger Some of the wealthier farmers can arrange it so that they and their families can winter at their comfortable high-veldt homes and send attendants with their cattle to the low veldt, while others, not so well favoured, must close up their houses and accompany their flocks to winter in the warm tracts, where they live in their wagons and tents and escape the outlay for winter clothing Owing to the scarcity of wood on the high veldt, kraal fuel used formerly to be the staple substitute. —  Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked
• As bad as what Kitchener used to do when he believed that a thousand details picked up on the veldt were as good as a column of two regiments. —  Traffics and Discoveries

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