Yes, as I walked, I began to long to see the moonlight gleaming silvery white over the wide veldt and mysterious sea of bush, and watch the lines of game travelling down the ridges to the water.
The high-veldt ox will die in the fat bush country, and so is it with me, Macumazahn.
The waggons had stopped for the night, the oxen were outspanned, and the native servants were engaged in knee-haltering their masters' horses, which were then turned into the veldt to graze.
An open stretch of veldtsucceeded to the mingled forest and scrub and jungle through which he had been passing.
The Karroo and the veldt do not change except according to the seasons; they pour their influences for ever upon those who ride across them as the Drakensberg Mountains send their waters down upon Natal beneath their mighty wall.
But out upon the veldtit was very quiet, "quietly shining to the quiet moon.
But one early dawn, when I was half-way between Krugersdorp and Mafeking, I came out upon theveldt in darkness, which was a lucid darkness, and in the silent crisp air I stumbled upon the truth.
Upon the veldt and the Karroo, and even through the Mapani scrub country that lies north of Lobatsi, simplicity is the chief characteristic of the scenery.
We trekked along the Crocodile River together, crossed it before it takes its southerly bend, and, for the whole of the dry winter season, hunted in a glorious veldt abounding in game.
Kate was out for a ride in the veldt this morning before breakfast, and met him as she came home by the Mafeking Road.
He returns to Nakeesa, gives her the news, and sends her into the grass veldt to dig up roots, while he himself prepares to make snuff.
It was not until the second time I stayed with him that old Cornelis Van Vuuren began to open his heart, and to pour fitfully into my ears, from the rich storehouse of his memory, many a strange tale of veldt life.
The oxen are feeding quietly round the vlei; the Boer's eye follows them with contentment, for water and the rich veldt have brought fat and sleekness to their great frames.
It is not often that this veldt is accessible--from scarcity of water--and it seemed good enough to quit the wagon road for a time, and try the bush for ivory.
Had she not taken a rifle and ridden out time after time with her husband into the low veldttowards Delagoa Bay, and shot with her own hand giraffe and buffalo--ay, and even the mighty elephant itself?
Only those who have lain out month after month in the vast silent veldt of the far interior can realise the unspeakable majesty of the deep indigo void of the night heaven, sown with a myriad flashing diamonds, that looms above the wanderer.
In the still solitudes around wander free and undisturbed the great game of the veldt she loved so well.
It used to be pretty well-known in theveldt years ago.
He's been trading and hunting in a new veldt far inland to the north-east, and he's had some extraordinary times.
And so Kwaneet and Nakeesa, too, had quitted the open veldt and the waterless forest, and lived temporarily on the banks of the upper Tamalakan, north-east of Lake Ngami.
Away over the veldt to the westward a pillar of dust was visible; and it was moving, drawing nearer.
The ghostly stretch of veldt around was wrapped in darkness and mystery, and from afar, just audible on the waft of stillness, came a succession of hollow, coughing roars.
And if he'll raise a corps to take theveldt and help straighten out this racket, I'm going to be the first man to join.
But as the mounted men drew near, the veldt between them and the farthest line of vision spread undisturbed by other mounted figures-- no--nor did the widest scrutiny in any direction reveal any sight of such.
That too, did not afflict them, and they discussed Paysandu tongue in that rough-and-ready veldt shanty with an appetite not always present at the most dainty and glittering of snowy tables.
The smell of the burningveldt and the nearness of the fire lent an oppressive warmth to the still morning.
The wide reaches of the African veldt have something to do with it, perhaps.
Not a breath of air was stirring, and the sun shone down blazing through the wisps of smoke haze, and the heat waves rose from the dead, parched veldt so that the distant southern volcano looked all quivering.
We came upon Means seated on his horse in a bit of the veldt that was covered all over with tufts of rank grass, so that it looked like a swamp that had been dry for ages.
The fringe of scrub at the beginning of the valley had been left behind some three or four miles when Ulyate suddenly reined in his horse and pointed to three black dots on the veldt about half a mile away.
On the dead grass of the bordering veldt there was nothing to show which way the lion had gone.
So all the horsemen spread out over the veldt to obtain a wider scope of vision, and for mile after mile the company moved forward, sweeping the immediate country.
No one spoke, and on the grass of the veldt the tread of the horses made scarcely any sound.
For the first ten miles of the march our way led across untraveled country, toward the two deep ruts in the veldt that were known as the wagon road.
The sky was clear of clouds, but behind the hills of the Mau escarpment a veldt fire had been burning for several days, so that a veil of smoke was seen hanging in the air as the dawn broadened into day.
But on first appearances the land looks much the same as the regulation veldt or certain parts of our own Western plains.
The Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi] The town lies on the edge of the Athi Plains, a broad sweep of sun-bleached grass veldt many miles in extent.
Off at daybreak through delightful hard roads and veldt as compared with mountainous Natal; we can now realize Lord Roberts' fine forced marches on seeing the difference between these and the Natal roads.
From a billow of the rolling veldt we looked back, and black columns were coming up behind us.
In the daytime hens peck and cackle in every street; at nightfall the bordering veldt hums with crickets and bullfrogs.
Most of them were posted on the inner edge of the flat top with a quarter of a mile of naked veldt to fire across.
Tommy and the veldt peasant--a comedy of good manners in wet and cold and mud and blood!
We were on a billow of veldt that heaved across the valley: up it ran, road and rail; on the left rose tiers of hills, in front a huge green hill blocked our view, with a tangle of other hills crowding behind to peep over its shoulders.
Beyond it, in the enemy's country, the veldt too was silvered over with moonlight and was blotted inkily with shadow from the kopjes.
If you could see the view from here, the barren expanse of veldtstretching miles away, the cluster of tin roofs and the few leafless thorn-trees beyond, I have no doubt you would laugh at this fancy of a spring day.
I would be glad to pay £5 out of my own pocket to have the man who wrote that out here on the veldt with us for a week.
But sheer above all, above yellow veldt and ruined Boer laager, rose the hill, the position we had carried, grim and rigid against the sunset and all black.
We have had nothing but level veldt to march on for weeks past, and the change to the eye is a pleasant one.
The veldt grass, till now dry and dusty and almost white, is beginning to push up tiny green blades, and the green colour is beginning to spread almost imperceptibly over the distant hills.
As for our wandering columns, they have about as much chance of catching Boers on the veldt as a Lord Mayor's procession would have of catching a highwayman on Hounslow Heath.
Tommy's good-natured face as he sweats it across the veldt gives some meaning to that boast.
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.
These folk we invite out on to the veldt or into the little garden in front, where they huddle together in their cotton frocks and big cotton sun-bonnets, while our men set fire to the house.
Here the value of perennially irrigated land to land depending on rainfall may be taken as £1 to one shilling in this district, on the high veldt of the Transvaal, and in the south-eastern corner of the Orange River Colony.
The south-eastern branch of the Central South African Railways connects with the Natal line at Volksrust, and proceeds along the high veldt viâ Standerton and Heidelberg to the Rand.
The high veldt of the Transvaal has an average height of 5000 feet above sea-level.
An infective sore, occurring mostly on the hands and feet, is often contracted in walking on the veldt in South Africa, and it has been called veldt-sore.
The line passes along the northern limits of the high veldt viâ Middelburg to Pretoria.
In the north-eastern half of the Orange River Colony the good veldt may be taken as £1 per acre, and perennially irrigated land as £20 per acre.
Indeed it appeared as though some giant had just walked over the veldt and sprinkled it with great splashes of jet-black ink.
At Waterval Boven the highveldt is gained, and the main difficulties left behind.
The soil of the grass veldt being deficient in lime, the stock naturally crave for salt, and in the northern districts farming cannot be carried on successfully without a liberal supply being provided for large as well as small stock.
This line would greatly relieve the congestion which exists after the high veldt is gained on the present eastern line, owing to the coal traffic and the over-sea imports having to be carried over a single line of railway.
Over the bakedveldt of Equatorial Africa a safari marched.
The veldt ran in long, low undulations, so that always they walked up or down gentle slopes.
They started off across the veldtat about four o'clock of the afternoon and travelled rapidly until dark.
Across the open veldt two figures had been descried.
For with the fall of darkness and the larger silence of darkness, the veldt awoke.
From the green line of the watercourse, near which the camp showed white and tiny, the veldtswept away for miles almost unbroken.
In savage Africa no man must at any time stir a foot into the veldt or jungle unarmed; in savage Africa no man must go at night fifty feet from a fire without a torch or lantern.
The veldt was still, as though all the silences, driven from those portions inhabited by the beasts, had here made their refuge.
At this time of year there are very few beasts or birds of any sort to be seen, though in the winter the veldt is one moving mass of "trek" or migratory game.
There are still plenty of lions about, but we did not hear any: whether it was that they had gone to the high-veldt after the cattle, or that they do not roar so much in summer, I do not know.
After we left the great high-veldt plains, over which the fresh breeze was sweeping, we dropped down into a beautiful bush-clad valley with mountains on either side.
A few years back this veldt swarmed with big game, with elephants and giraffes, and they are even now occasionally seen.
We cantered easily over the great high-veldt prairies, now and then passing clumps of trees, outposts of the bush-veldt.
The veldt waved like a sea--not nakedly and forlorn, but dotted with grey mimosa and big green dropsical aloes, that here and there showed a scarlet plume like a flame.
The veldt was all about them, as silent and friendly as they, and the distance was mellow with a haze of heat.
And then he was a first-rate hunter, a good veldt man, who had killed many an elephant, and had met death fairly and squarely time after time these eight years past.
Meanwhile May Felton was speeding along over the eighteen miles of veldt road that led her to Vryburg and comparative safety.
The veldt was perfectly quiet, save for the plaintive wailing of a far-off jackal, which had got their wind and was crying out the news to his fellows.
The blazing morning passed, as in all these long veldt rides, in monotonous fashion.
Your `boys' are all away in the veldt with the trek oxen.
And I thought, too, perhaps, as you have been away in the veldt so long, you might like to have news from down-country.
He promises me the half of all ivory shot, and will find spoorers and show me his best veldt and give me every help.
Bands of sand-grouse were coming in from their long day in the veldt to drink at the river's edge.
Yet in the last few days, luck had turned; they had stumbled by chance upon a veldt thick with elephants; they had slain three yesterday and were now hot upon the spoor of an immense troop, which on the coming morning they hoped to attack.
It rested on the veldt there, silent, completely motionless.
His preparations were soon made, and, a few weeks later, he was enjoying his fill of sport and adventure in the wild country north-east of the Transvaal, at that time a veldt swarming with great game.
It was absolutely necessary to husband even these slender resources, and Van Driel had therefore been anxiously surveying the surrounding veldt for some herd of game from which he could secure a meal or two for his starving family.
Kate Marston was a colonial-born girl, and understood the ways and signs of the veldtwell enough.
I says to myself times and times; but I bethought me at last there wasn't no sense in a good man like me laving his bones out on the bare Veldt yonder; so, you see, I spread my wings and came home again.
The bare Veldt was opening out as the darkness receded, depth on depth, like the surface of an unbroken sea.
Springboks used to assemble at certain seasons, and migrate across the veldtin countless thousands, allowing nothing to stop the headlong rush of the host.
At first her people refuse, but finally they give her a hoe and showing her a piece of raw veldt say, "Show how you can dig, so that we may see whether you have strength to perform the work of a wife.
Progress is now slow, since the veldt from this to the village is full of the stumps of trees cut off, native fashion, two or three feet above ground, and we are fearful of running into these and breaking the wagon.
We started on Thursday morning, sleeping out on the veldt during the night, and reached Mtyabezi on Friday afternoon.
We rejoiced when the goods as well as Brother Taylor and the boys were all safely at home, but the heavy wagon had to remain for a time on the veldt before it could be brought to the mission.
So we rode along, observing the dry veldt not without interest, but the lonely road heaved up and down over the plain and revealed little sign of human occupation.
It was intended only to march for three hours; but our information about water proved to be incorrect, and the column wound along in the moonlight over mile after mile of the most sterile veldt I have yet seen in the country.
One was under Colonel Mahon, and repaired the telegraph line in the neighbourhood of Modder River; it was intended to patrol as far as Klip Drift, but the rain made the veldt impassable for waggons.
We knew the direction by the stars, and started across the veldt a little south of east.
All the old colours rush westward across the sky; the veldt glows with tints that have no name nor description in our dull tongue; yet these are the mere drip and overflow of the dayspring.
The veldt undulates from sky to sky, a plain rising and falling about the base of rocks and island kopjes.
Grass downtrodden that shall rise again, little flowers bruised that shall renew their blossoms; and still the birds singing peacefully, the hares leaping, the manifold petty life of the veldt resuming its routine and circumstance.
They reported that the English on the high veldt were very active and numerous.
There was one old burgher among them with a long beard, a great veldt hat, and armed with a Mauser which seemed hardly to have been used.
I could only tell them that the veldt between Nelspruit and Barberton up to Avoca, was, so far as I had been able to discover, full of cattle and waggons belonging to farmers who now had no chance of escaping.
One day while we were manoeuvring with the "Long Tom," the veldt burst into flames, and the wind swept them along in our direction like lightning.
Nobody will doubt that we on the veldt were desperately anxious to hear the glad tidings of Peace.
During the season the veldt in the Transvaal is in the very worst condition, and the animals are then poorer than at any other period.
It will be seen from what I have said that occasionally the dark horizon of our veldt life was lit up by the bright sunshine of the lighter elements of life.
The whole veldt all round was black, everything seemed in mourning, the only relief from this dull monotony of colour being that afforded by the innumerable specks of khaki all around us.
The veldt being burned out there was not a blade of grass to be seen, and we had great trouble in keeping our animals alive.
The continuous rain and cold of the Drakenbergen rendered our first experience of veldt life, if not unbearable, very discouraging.
The veldt was in splendid condition at the foot of Bothasberg, where we had pitched our camp.
There is something genuinely awe-inspiring about it; and when the repeated volleys rumble into silence, one can imagine the veldt crouched in a rigid terror that shall endure.
For a full minute every living creature of the jungle or of the veldt holds its breath.
When the rain came down and deluged both officers and men, and sleep was impossible, tentless on the veldt and seated in the mud, the men hour after hour sang defiance to the storm.
He has lain wounded upon theveldt sometimes for three or, at any rate in one case, for four days.
The wardmaster has spent a fortnight in bed with veldt sores.
Even at his worst the British soldier is capable of better things, and out there upon the veldt he has many a time thought of God, and wondered what possibilities for good there were within him.
But the South African veldt has witnessed the remarkable spectacle of a sober army.
We have all heard of the patient ox, and away there on the veldt he has patiently toiled at his yoke until he has laid down and died.
They followed a course across the veldt that began as a road and after a mile or two deteriorated into a mere rough track.
She stretched an arm towards the wide veldt all about them.
The veldt on the Witwatersrand is as open and devoid of cover as a billiard-table.
Only bareveldt but a very few years ago, now a population of forty thousand--mostly brokers.
She was as good as her word, for she reappeared almost immediately with a hat and sunshade, and they set forth, striking out over the bare open veldt which extended around and behind the Booyseus estate.
Impervious to the furnace-like heat, he stepped out over the veldt at a pace which, by the time he reached the corner of the Wemmer property, caused him to look up wonderingly, that he should already be entering the town.
Well, the question is, are we dead certain of finding opportunities for sending him back; for we can't turn him loose on the veldt and say good-bye?
It scorned even to look at its brother sheep on the veldt modestly feeding on coarse veldt grass; but on sardines and bacon-fat it seemed to thrive astonishingly; and both my bread and sugar it coolly commandeered.
That, to the famine-haunted imagination of the troops, was precisely what many a well-fed porker on the veldt seemed to say, but as a rule say in vain.
Indeed the veldt is not only round about it on every side, but even asserts its presence in many an unfinished street.
Australians and Canadians, men from Burma, from India and Ceylon, speedily joined hands on the far distant veldt in defence of what they proudly felt to be their heritage as well as ours.
If you want to use such language go out on to the veldt and swear at the stones, but I will not permit you to contaminate the men by such language in the lines.
You are still on the veldt in the midst of the city; and the characteristic kopje is in full view here, there, and everywhere.
To mend matters still further and to improve the no longer shining hours, an officer caught sight of a stray pig upon the veldt and shot it, just as though it had been a sniping "brother.
Thus to many a non-combatant the medical staff was called to minister, and the veldt to provide a grave.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "veldt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
