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

The heavy gloom, the mysterious noises of the veldt at night, the shadowy patches in the bush, all seemed to heighten the tension of one's nerves.

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

The khaki suits were designed to imitate the yellow veldts of South Africa; the gray-green garments of the German forces are designed to simulate the green fields of the north.

From Aeroplanes by James Slough Zerbe

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

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