| The impression of Kruger garnered by the British envoys in Pretoria during early 1877 was one of an unspeakably vulgar, bigoted backveld peasant. |
| Thomas Pringle's excursions into the backveld had him banging off through the animal alphabet from Antelope all the way down to Zebra. |
| These state-printed-and-distributed texts were an important medium for educating the backveld in geological theory and hydraulic engineering practice. |
| The popular antipathy on the backveld towards geological and engineering science constituted a serious ideological obstacle to state water boring. |
| Even so this was chiefly at the expense of Labour, while the Nationalist tide rose still higher on the backveld. |
| The motor-car was now beginning to make its first appearance in the backveld, and a small motor transport corps rendered excellent service. |
