What is "velde"

Usage examples of "velde".

Van de Velde was standing by the stained-glass window, peering out at the shipping that lay anchored off the foreshore.

Tegen de tijd dat ik in Afrika arriveerde, werd ik beter in het leren van een taal te velde.

Van de Velde looked dubious and helped himself to another curried samosa from the tray.

He also used more brilliant and varied colors, but he was not so happy in harmony as Van de Velde.

Velde said, but despite his misgivings he watched the way Aboli handled the team of greys.

Van de Velde sighed with pleasure, not only with the sensation of the knots being eased from his muscles but because he recognized this as the prelude to the infrequent dispensation of her sexual favours.

Tom and Dorian signed the deed of transfer of High Weald and, grinning triumphantly, van de Velde handed over an irrevocable letter of credit drawn on the Bank of Batavia for an amount less than half of what he had been prepared to pay for it only a few months before.

So he started working again, drilling and moving as he was expected to do--according to Van de Velde in IDEAL MARRIAGE, which Sally had brought him from her father's library--with too much frenzy and not enough skill.