The word "veldt" is Dutch, and the word "illimitable" is Double Dutch. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
South African veldt, which is said to give a greater feeling of infinity than the ocean even. From Wordnik.com. [Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman] Reference
To advance was impossible; each depression in the veldt was a sheet of water, in places inches deep. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference
The veldt is a void to us, all darkness, and it hides a threat which, as it may fall anywhere, must be guarded against everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
Can you use the word "veldt" in a drought-stricken area?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Worlds of 2001]
"veldt" in our own day, it might be regarded as on probation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2] Reference
"veldt," or perhaps flats by the riverside, during the time when the river's drift and brick earth was being deposited. From Wordnik.com. [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference
As a matter of fact, the veldt was a-fire. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
We camped early in the afternoon on the high veldt. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Dead, dying, wounded, were dotted all over the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Spartan habits engendered by my recent life on the veldt!. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
His chum was shot through the stomach, and died on the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
Fierce-looking farmers from the remotest veldt, and sleek urban. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
Highlanders were groaning in heaps upon the blistering veldt, Corporal. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
At all events it was a contrast to the vivid colouring of the African veldt. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
African veldt, which farm brought him in an income of some two hundred a year. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
Johannesberg in the midst of the dreary veldt filled Kruger's soul with loathing. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
About four days before, on the high veldt, we had frost on our blankets in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
I had for some months been trying to find gold or diamonds by digging holes in the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Facing the ridge was a wide expanse of veldt rising upwards in the direction of Ladysmith. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
It is very literally a child of the veldt; and still clings strangely to its nursing mother. From Wordnik.com. [With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back] Reference
That night we had a huge veldt fire, and the whole camp had to turn out with blankets to fight it. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
We reached there at midnight, turned-in on the wet veldt for a few hours and were up again at four. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
The veldt-desire had never gripped him as it is declared to grip those who have found a home in Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He himself crawled to within three miles of the base camp, and then lay down on the veldt and fell asleep. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
From far across the veldt came the occasional beating of a buzzard's wings, like the beating of muffled drums. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
On his side, he told her of his life on the veldt, and mentioned that he was returning to England on business. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
A curious sense of loneliness fell upon him, a loneliness altogether at variance with the loneliness of the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
The burghers arrived in the customary picturesqueness of woollen shirts, round hats, rough coats, and leathern veldt-broeks. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899] Reference
Others have described it as well deserving the name of being the hottest and most unpleasant region in the high veldt of Natal. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
On the outcome of that same business would depend the question whether he remained in England, or whether he returned to the veldt. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
They sleep out in the open veldt -- no tents, except for their heads; and one Boer said he had never had his clothes off for a month. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
Tents were, in general, the only housing allowed, and this, though “the cold in the ‘upper veldt’ country in winter was intense.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
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