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

“In my mind, there was somebody roaring across the African veldt in a Jeep with a DVD beside him, past lions,” Mr. Sanders said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2014

In the distance lay the green-clad veldt, simmering a russet brown beneath the glories of the sunset.

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

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 Zerbe, James Slough

In 1881 they campaigned across the veldts against the Boers.

From Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace by Maxwell, George Hebard

And we learn to love the great mountains and rich forests and unfenced steppes and veldts and prairies.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir