veldt

“Alex is in a cell,” the oldest man said, his voice as flat as the veldt stretching to the horizon.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2019

The high veldt rolled away, in shades of coffee and wheat.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2016

Also, square cars getting rounder, with Land Rover smoothing out its distinct boxy corners, ideal for the African veldt, to look like everything else.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 30, 2015

Looking closely I noticed the veldt was dotted with thousands of tiny yellow and purple buds, giving me a taste of what might be — weather willing.

From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2014

A short canter from Mafeking across the sloping expanse of the veldt and the interior lines of its western defences lie before one.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

In Oregon’s Willamette Valley, annual bouts of fall fire created veldts, typically 10 to 20 acres in size, of nearly pure camas lily, which have tasty roots that Kalapuya families gathered and stored for winter.

From National Geographic ● Dec. 17, 2020

First, in the deserts and veldts arose oral culture, the culture of the spoken word.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson

All around were bare rocks and the dry sweltering veldts, covered only with round stones and red sand and low bushy vegetation.

From What's Bred in the Bone by Grant Allen

In England there is an illimitable number of illimitable veldts.

From A Miscellany of Men by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

These were scattered with patches of dense forest and jungle, but there were also great plains or veldts covered with game and animal life.

From The Blind Lion of the Congo by Elliott Whitney