| 单词 | vein |
| 例句 | The sound that jarred the volunteer from his reveries was a terrified bleating squeal such as movie vampire victims are wont to make as the fangs of cackling necrophiliacs puncture their breasts or jugular veins. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes my blood feel like lead in my veins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But Mr. Michael, fists taut, his temple vein popping, does. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Which then gave its name to everything, pockets of agony scattered throughout the city, buried like veins of dismay: Chagrin Falls, Chagrin Boulevard, Chagrin Reservation. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Roy watched as a vein in Mr. Muckle’s neck swelled up and began to pulse like a garden hose. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins in my arms and legs rise. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The two women are both white tourists and old, with sagging skin and too-short shorts showing off their blue veins. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Was it their long dried blood which now ran red and living in Johnny’s veins? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Blue veins like lumpy knitting running up her translucent shins. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t leave the tree, for in his veins flowed the breeded blood of a hunting hound. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Was it his own blood pulsing through his veins that he could feel, or was it something beating inside the locket, like a tiny metal heart? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I watched as the veins on his forehead became transparent through his flesh and disappeared as he absorbed the contents of the book or thought about whatever else was on his mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They stood like that until Papa’s gaze went bleary from the drink in his veins and dropped to the damp shirt, to the blood still spattering onto Mama's dress. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The exploding vein had given the monsters pause, but it wouldn’t be long before they remembered: Hey, wait, there’s seventy-five gazillion of us, and only two of them. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The cop grabbed a coat and walked toward us, and as he approached, I could see the blue veins through the translucent skin of his face. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A vein pulsed in her head the way it did when she had a headache. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Sadness and rage bubbled through his veins, coupled with the unwelcome sense of shame. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z A vein on the side of the man’s forehead throbs lightly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Block after block of ceiling lights snapped on, electricity pouring through them after years of existing as nothing more than hollow, dusty veins. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He went on in the same vein, filling her ears with lines cribbed straight from Pastor Tom. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z On one side was the wall of a building and he slumped against it, panting, the corded vein in his forehead inflamed. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Nazario was a reptile, his veins as cold as a razor in the morning. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The sun was the same as it had been the day I’d buried Maman, and like then, my forehead especially was hurting me, all the veins in it throbbing under the skin. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I could see the veins on Johnny’s neck bulge, but he just nodded. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The cold, wild air was like wine in the veins. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt it instantly—the sudden rush of coolness flooding through her veins. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I wanted the blood of the one who had stripped me of power thirteen years ago ... for the lingering protection his mother once gave him would then reside in my veins too. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Heaviness infuses my whole body, as if there's liquid lead in my veins. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Moss picked up his chair and flung it toward the back of the stage, fury coursing through his veins. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Shallow lobes and a jagged border and hard veins that rose up from the rubbery green flesh. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a small cotton pad taped to the vein. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Estraven when in power had never done so, and it was not in the Karhidish vein: their government was not a public performance, normally; it was covert and indirect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even as the ice melted in my veins and grateful gulps of air filled my lungs, my unease deepened into dread. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They were three dark figures driven to wander by the wild sea-blood in their veins. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I would hear and feel the hammering of metal in my head, and these unbearable sharp sounds made my veins and muscles sour. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In the crafty vein, Madison was ingenious at contesting the strongest argument for a Pennsylvania location, which was its geographic centrality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the same vein, all the heroic portraits of the great men were romanticized distortions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z August vibrates with anger, a vein pulsing at his temple. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He stroked her transparent hands, her slender fingers, the shells of her ears, and ran his hands over her neck, listening to the imperceptible sound of the life inside her veins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All around her, men and women were shouting, veins bulging in their necks and foreheads, their eyes wide. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dr. Musoke tried again, putting the needle into another place in the patient’s arm and probing for the vein. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the gore so much, but the adrenaline buzz that went with the job, that quick hot rush in your veins when the choppers settled down and you had to do things fast and right. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas could see the muscles in Newt’s arms flexing, veins popping out as he pulled at Alby’s hands, until finally, inch by inch, he was able to pry them away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If your veins feel tighter or your pulse gets thicker somehow? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But I didn’t move, and a part of it was because the chill had returned to coil in my veins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He turns it over, tracing his fingers along the path of my veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Even the child was staring now at his father, his eyes like black stones against the naked whiteness of his veined face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z And the bead I’d found, golden yellow with a red vein that I thought wasn’t good enough, just above the cross. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A painful-looking blue vein stretches down from her hairline to her eyelid. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the cook, the flour on her hands, heavy breasts shot through with dark blue veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It pushed the anxiety and fear away, and it pumped through his veins. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But Jack was still shuddering, still white, like the dark water still coursed in his veins. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They looked as though they had eaten and blood still ran rapidly in their veins. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It’s a “weakening of a blood vessel,” like a little bubble that swells out from a vein or an artery. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But the old man’s blood was running backward in his veins and God wouldn’t reconsider. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z His flesh was wrinkled and spotted, the skin so papery thin that he could see the web of veins and the shape of bones beneath. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the darkness, with a war- whoop—deplorable and ungentlemanly tactics—be fell on the insurgent camp with the blood pounding in the veins of his neck, and Excalibur dancing in his hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He held them out to her, and she saw how the veins and arteries in his arms flowed in ridges just beneath his skin and how strong his wrists and fingers were. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Just over the external jugular vein there were two punctures, not large, but not wholesome-looking. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Yeah, there’s a vein of iron about half a kilometer that way. But nothing between here and there.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As I knock back the dregs that have settled to the bottom of the cup, I feel a slight buzz start to run through my veins. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sweetness spreads through my mouth, down my throat, warming my veins with memories of summer, and my home woods and Gale's presence beside me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z For three hours—until six o’clock—he persisted in the same inexorable vein: that Judge Fielding’s admonitions should be heeded with the utmost seriousness and that reasonable doubt existed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When I raise my eyes from the floor to meet his, I can see the red veins fighting to break through. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She wriggled to him and clamped her thumb on the vein that was gushing. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “The esthetic values of the wilderness are as much our inheritance as the veins of copper and gold in our hills and the forests in our mountains.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The vein in his forehead swelled to the point of bursting and his face was dark with rage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A lot of people thought you wouldn’t get hooked if you skin-popped instead of injecting the drug directly into a vein. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They were breathing the same breath; their veins ran with the same blood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Their veins and arteries have been injected with colored rubber, blue for the veins, purple for the arteries, so we can see that their blood systems are connected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ruth let the seaweed disintegrate, and later, when its veins and stems dropped and curled into brown scabs on the table, she removed the bowl and brushed away the scabs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Ropelike veins ran along his body, pulsing and green—but less pronounced than the day before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I nodded, my fingers finding the bare skin of his forearms, tracing the muscles and overlying veins there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His face was a fearsome red and a vein pulsed at his temple as if it were about to explode. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Surrounding it is a patch of blue strands,like someone injected blue dye into the tiny veins just beneath the surface of my skin. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see the blue veins running through their skin like rivers. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z She continued in this vein for some time, until Wood said, “Er — Madam Hooch? Is it okay if Harry has the Firebolt back? We need to practice....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He hands me a glass screen with bright lines tangled across it like veins. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z His hands were pale, with green veins and fingers that were like parasites, and he wore a solid gold ring with a round sunflower opal on his left index finger. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Every year there were half a dozen or more reports in similar vein, all by credible witnesses. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z My dad tries to pacify my mother, but the bulging vein in his forehead tells me he is far from relaxed. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I gaze around the airport at the high ceilings and the wide windows, excitement coursing through my veins as we walk to gate 17 for our flight to Rome. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The tops of her hands were roped with muscle and veins, but her skin was wrinkled and soft. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood in my veins was meant to keep pulse with the rhythm of these streets. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My blood was racing, and I wished I could slow it, sensing that this must make everything so much more difficult — the thudding of my pulse in my veins. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Two people tie a rope around the cow’s neck and hold it so that the jugular vein pops up. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins of the young girl’s legs suddenly appeared like worms on her dark skin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Only his grandmother had paid him any attention, and she never let him forget that he was different from the others because the patrons blood ran in his veins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch the vein in his neck pulse. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z He felt his veins begin to pulsate; then the vibration coursed through him, and he felt the power leave his hands and enter his wound. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The leaves grew larger, greener, veined underneath in pale chartreuse, the blades thick and full of liquid that I kept expecting to smell like gardenias, but it didn’t. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But right then, I wished I could open my veins and drain his cursed blood from my body. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The tip of it juts out and up like an ugly thumb and the serrashuns along one side spring up like gnashing teeth and the blade edge pulses like a vein full of blood. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He considered this for a second and said, “Give it three days to work its way through your veins. Once it’s complete, you’ll feel it.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z His skin was back to full color, his eyes no longer crisscrossed with red veins; he seemed to have gained fifteen pounds in twenty-four hours. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I had heard many theories about what happened to us after death, but even with Yakov’s dybbuk shifting inside my veins, I still didn’t have an answer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His jaw is tight, and there’s a vein pulsing in his neck. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z He winced when Thyon jabbed in his needle, and winced again, because the alchemist missed the spirit vein and hit a blood vessel instead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The burst vein sealed itself, but nothing remained of the monsters except a row of scorch marks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was a rushing sound in her ears as if she were listening to her own blood running far too fast through her veins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She had what the catalogs call "a mature figure," and she was not at all self-conscious about it or the starbursts of tiny blue veins on both her inner and outer thighs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see veins popping out on either side of Traft’s neck. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On the back of his hand, a veining of red, wet blood welled up. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Of course, a vein of iron in the cliff might carry her down safely. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It was sharp indeed, and veined with wine,- very choice. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And then there were the unbelievable blue and yellow eyes laced with the finest tracing of pinkish veins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have kissed him, blotchy skin and broken veins and all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Clasping her frail, veined hands in her lap, Vivian gazes out the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Eugene’s feet are white and bright with little blue veins. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z My lungs are tight, they breathe always the same hot, used-up air, the veins on my temples are swollen. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Honey coursed through Hazel’s body as she slept, running through her veins and into her heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Her palm was pale, almost diaphanous, and he could see the greenish criss-cross of her veins. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There are cadets who have skin like butter and irises like sapphires and ultra-fine networks of blue veins laced across the backs of their hands. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Yeah, he could definitely see her being born with lava in her veins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I could see the bones and veins; I could see the exact structure of her skull. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The question flowed through Biff always, unnoticed, like the blood in his veins. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I clung to the willow branch but the mandragora that now filled my veins had stolen my strength. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z And the red veins on her nose, the bloodshot eyes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The needle would not hold in place in the damaged vein. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A large vein throbbed just below the surface, under a thick layer of skin. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Laila remembered Tariq’s hands, soft but strong, the tortuous, full veins on the backs of them, which she had always found so appealingly masculine. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The skin was shiny and smooth, veined and mottled like green turquoise; he felt the shape. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time I steadied myself and made certain my toe wasn’t broken, I had so much adrenaline pumping through my veins that it was like I’d snorted a cup of coffee grounds. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I pull out a piece of golden-yellow jasper with one narrow vein of deep red. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Between the flinty crests of the two outermost escarpments of the Outer Range runs an east-west trough, maybe five miles across, carpeted in a boggy amalgam of muskeg, alder thickets, and veins of scrawny spruce. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Stripes of white, orange, and rust-colored veins swam through the jags, pits, and knobs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They ran their hands over the blue relief of Theresa’s veins, and shuddered — then shuddered more as understanding took slow hold. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But here was the wrinkled, veined, discolored, shuffling, horrific truth, right before her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There had been a time two years ago when he had bet with the best of them, and lost a week's salary and faced Mildred's insane anger, which showed itself in veins and blotches. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Brian smiles a slow careful smile, but the vein in his neck’s pulsing furiously and it seems likely that whatever’s about to come out of his mouth next is going to get us killed. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Unable to glide smoothly through capillaries and veins, sickled red cells jammed into microscopic clots throughout the body, interrupting blood flow and precipitating the excruciating pain of a sickling crisis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I can see in my mind’s eye his black arms thrown back behind his head, the muscles like great big peach stones sanded down, with veins running like little swollen rivers down his arms. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He said nothing, and went on chewing the bread, his temples working, the vein on his forehead, full and angry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Her red, red lips curved up into a smile of such beauty, such brilliance, such pure and perfect happiness that it would have frozen your blood in your veins to have seen it. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Ever since Galen, it had been thought that the veins and the arteries carried different substances—two kinds of blood. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But all he did was crumple the note in his fist, veins popping from his skin as he squeezed it, and Thomas’s heart sank. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z What I heard froze the blood in my veins. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The anger pulsed through him as if it, instead of blood, thumped out of his heart and through his veins, but even as he stood, he could feel himself calming. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In anger he bared his teeth—a habit, Granny said, that he had formed while fighting in the trenches of the Civil War—and hissed, while his fists would clench until the veins swelled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t. One of her veins did sort of look like a ‘T.’ It wasn’t on her forehead. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z This time, at my touch, they course through my veins in an eager, heady rush. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Wells explained that the Martians nourished themselves by injecting a victim’s blood directly into their veins. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In a white shirt and mundu with angry veins in his neck. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an awkward silence between them, and Ash looked down at the ground, studying the gradations of brown and the pattern of veins in the fallen leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And the words that came to my ears amid the cries made my blood stop in my veins. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The investigation tapped into veins of anti-Semitism that flowed just under the racial prejudice at the laboratory and in the community. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The red veins were only weirwood sap, he supposed, but in the torchlight they looked remarkably like blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z You could live even if your second heart stopped and the spirit hardened in your veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z His hands, folded on the desk before him, were gnarled with veins and had a bluish, pearly sheen around the knuckles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Still in the special voice, his father was saying, “I know, I know. It hurts, little guy. But I have to use a vein, and the veins in your arms are still too teeny-weeny.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Her craving settled on the red liquid coursing through the other woman’s veins. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “This way. There’s a natural vein of iron underground. You can feel it in your crash bracelets.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z There’s a magic here working its way through my veins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Little things—a cricket on a stem, the veined branches on a leaf—are magnified, brought from the background in achingly clear focus. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I saw a ridge of solid black cut through the forest like a vein. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I have electricity coursing through my veins instead of blood. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He saw the holster, and the anxiety threaded into his veins, pulsed from his chest up to his throat, and he couldn’t breathe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The tiny suckers pull at my skin and the vein beneath. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Kalo was drenched with sweat, the veins in his neck bulging. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The poison chokes my veins like a vise. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They wanted drugs to smoke, drugs to snort, drugs to swallow, and drugs to shoot directly into their veins by any means possible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z If it had not been for the vein of light around the edges of the drawn shades he would have passed on, thinking the house deserted. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tiny bright lights danced before his eyes, his body trembled and he felt the blood boiling in his veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Cold and dead they were, and they hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun, and every hving creature with hot blood in its veins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She kept shifting her weight from one leg to the other, trying to ease the pain from the swelling of her varicose veins. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The plump mul- berries had been white and pink, and some the same dark purple as the bursts of tiny veins on Wajma’s nose. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And true to the palm oil that flowed in her veins, she never had a visitor to whom she did not offer food before one word of conversation—business or social—began. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps I could see her because I have a drop or two of magic running in my veins, leftover from long, long ago.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He climbed down from his chair and waddled to the sideboard, where a wheel of veined white cheese sat surrounded by fruit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I turn her wrist over and trace the veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Besides, it's only important when it fills the veins of a living man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “He still ain’t right, is he? Still got the bug juice in his veins.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The secretary wears a splint on his broken jaw, which, luckily, deflects the knife away from the jugular vein, but it does little to protect the rest of his skull. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The veins along his arms and neck swelled. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z If there wasn’t but one drop of human blood in your veins, you couldn’t help but feel sorry for the poor sap; we was probably doing him a favor getting him outta this turrible sit-a-way-shun. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The veins in his neck were standing out. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Maybe he was thinking about the music that flowed in the city’s veins. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Though she was barely an inch over five feet tall, her arms were massive with thick, knotted biceps and her forearms were threaded with protruding veins and hard sinew. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Increasingly, he seemed to think of his home state in the same vein as the Indian tribes in his letter to the Cherokees. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I set a second one on my neck, and it leaves behind a slimy trail like a streak of paint as it finds the thick vein right under my jawbone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The sound froze the very blood in his veins. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The veins in his sweaty palms were hard and swollen and painful. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z A leaf falls from a branch, and I press my fingernail into the space between its veins, cracking it into pieces. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z As he spoke, the veins on his forehead became visible through his skin. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In space, with no gravity, there is no “up” or “down” for the heart, and when it pumps, it has an easier job, having only to overcome the resistance of the veins and arteries. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Deltas of tiny red veins snaked its stained whites. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Between moves they tip their heads back, swirl blood-colored brandy in glass globes and watch it crawl down the curved glass in liquid veins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Tight, rigid cords of sickly green veins webbed across the boy’s body and limbs, like ropes under his skin. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I do not know what happened, but when I woke up the next day I felt as if I had had nails hammered into the bones of my foot and my veins were being chiseled. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The IV was like ice in my veins. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe pride ran in more than one set of veins in the family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her green dress is short and exposes the varicose veins crisscrossing up her legs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Cassie rescheduled for the next test and got her nails done at a salon, Enchanted Blue, while they locked me up and dripped sugar water into my empty veins... Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Its extremities were soggy wooden beams intertwined with metal shackles, the iron restraints lining its limbs like veins. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Harry saw the edge of Snape’s sallow face turn a nasty brick color, the vein in his temple pulsing more rapidly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He felt a slender vein of heat, running from the ankle to the knee. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She has no idea that when she came in the house stinking of liquor, part of me wanted to hop off this seventeen-year-old wagon and tap into her veins to suck out the booze. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It had been something about the coal vein taking a turn and going the wrong direction. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Anger flared like an oil spill inside my veins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z "She got so mad, I thought a vein would pop right out of her neck." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Taisin felt the blood singing in her veins; all of her was surging up to meet Kaede, who pressed her closer. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For but a heartbeat he felt most peculiar, as if thick, black treacle were running through his veins in place of blood; then the shape of the world changed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I must inform you, any trace of King George III blood I have would curdle in my very veins and render me useless to you. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And through her stockings, faintly, could be seen the wrappings of elastic bandage to support the veins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mohamed was coughing until the veins on his throat were visible. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The mountainside was streaked with sparkling black and blue lines, like the veins of some giant we little insects were inching across. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They were darkly spotted, and the skin, translucent in appearance, was prominently veined. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On the sideboard was a flagon of wine, two cups, and a half wheel of veined white cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pulled over into a 7-Eleven parking lot and held my finger to my jugular vein while watching the : in the digital clock blink every second. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z His age is betrayed only by the creases across his brow and a proud, deeply pitted nose, over which a purple filigree of veins unfolds like a finely wrought tattoo. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His face looked slightly transparent, the veins too close to the surface. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her veins have a yellow tint beneath her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z That’s a long day here in the land of shrimp veins. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Percy’s blood moved like sap in his veins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I ran my pinkie over the vein and felt it, pulsating against my skin. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Muscles and veins ripple his forearm, like the arm of someone who works in fields all day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His shoulders rounded over his controller, slamming buttons, his forearms taut, veins visible. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “In every sentence they menace our poor veins. Their language is as frightful to the ears of the alarmed multitude as the raven’s croak to those of the sickly flock.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She traced the veins that corded down his arms and the lines that crisscrossed the palms of his hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A blue vein in her right temple throbbed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I can feel the heat of your fingers, which is the heat of your blood pulsing through your veins. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The wall suddenly loomed, and her blood throbbed in her veins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was something wrong with the patient’s veins; his blood poured out around the needle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagine that the serum is liquid adrenaline rushing through my veins, making me strong. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He, too, stared at the prisoner, and observed that a cluster of veins had appeared in his left temple. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew he was seeking to cut the all-important vein, the jugular. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And for students there are sharks with the blood drained out and yellow and blue color substituted in veins and arteries, so that you may follow the systems with a scalpel. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But I tried to keep my expression from showing how clearly I remembered the feeling . . . the fire in my veins. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I study the youthful parody shape in the mirror: the stomach lipped tight by muscle; the shoulders rounded by chin-ups; the arms veined strong. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Niles steps forward and plunges the needle into Tobias’s neck, squeezing the cloudy, bluish liquid into his veins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He felt like he couldn't breathe, like a stone wall was sitting on his chest with the bricks running through his veins. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Taisin felt the power in the woman’s veins, and she was awed by the strength of it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The cars disappeared into the distance, overshooting as she skimmed the iron vein. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Oh please tell me which is the water that runs through my veins, I moaned; oh please tell me which is the water that washes my burning eyes! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins in his neck stood out and his fists were hard as little rocks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But this is just a nickname between my dad and me, not for the outside world, in the same vein as my calling him “Hammer.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z She thought she would start with the corporals legs in order to be out of the way of the nurse who was beginning to search his blackened arm, looking for a vein. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In Dwelholm, various elfin noblemen claimed that they had a drop of King Degravaunt’s blood running through their blue veins from fifteen generations back. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The veins on my arms stood out and I could feel them pulsating as if they had begun to breathe of their own accord. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Originally the business had been named the Idaho Gold and Radium Mining Company, after Schnatterly claimed to have found a vein of radium worth millions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were very pale green, and almost transparent where the sun shone through, he could see all the veins. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Peeta’s found a good vein and the water begins to gush from the spile. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Minho spat in the ivy, veins popping out of his neck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The route there from the Smoke twisted in all directions, taking advantage of veins of iron, rivers, and dry creek beds, but they’d never had to leave their boards. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z As though the red wash flying from veins not theirs is facial makeup patented for its glow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z And every touch sends electricity through my veins. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z But as I start to work my way out of the band, I feel a cold liquid seeping into my vein from one of the tubes and almost immediately lose consciousness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The gray stone was streaked with powdery yellow uranium, bright and alive as pollen; veins of sooty black formed lines with the yellow, making mountain ranges and rivers across the stone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He imagined the poison traveling through his veins and attacking his heart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z It disappeared into the veins of the ship with a decisive thunk. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A final burst of energy flew through Inigo’s veins and he made every attempt, tried every trick, used every hour of every day of his years of experience. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “This one,” she said, pointing at a tall dark green plant with round pointed leaves, deep veined like fossil shells. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I pushed the tip of the butcher’s knife against her jugular vein. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z His words spark a fresh shock of jealousy that courses through my veins like I had stuck my pen into an electrical socket. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “That means she has a clot in the veins so that her legs swell up. She may have to stay in bed a long time.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always there, out there in the fen, living on in the veins of the children of Cain. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z After ten minutes of polite assistance Ishmael wondered aloud if his DeSoto wasn’t the answer and persisted in this vein for five minutes more before Hisao yielded to it as an unavoidable evil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Coursing through my veins, easing the pain, lightening my body so that it rises back toward the air and rests again on the foam. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Up close, his face is red, the vein on his forehead popping out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The rush of adrenaline coursing through my veins had all of my senses popping. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Kelley would do a “cut down,” using his scalpel to cut quickly and firmly into the flesh at the wrist or ankle to locate the vein—without cutting through it—to insert the needle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z His veins had swelled with the effort of the cough, and the varicose ulcer had started itching. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Poisonous venom from the bite of an asp was already coursing through the queen’s veins when Octavian received the letter. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He pushed the plunger very slowly, injecting the liquid into the scalp vein until the syringe was empty. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z A topographical map of veins runs up her hands and over her wrists, and she has dozens of tiny creases around her eyes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He pushed it even harder, till it was biting into the man’s black skin, making all the veins in his hand bulge like thick, black night crawlers. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I knew that in the veins of these hounds flowed the purest of breeded blood. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Vampires ain’t got nothing but green running in their veins, and green means money.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Magic Eye is at the edge of his chair, the veins on his neck showing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Alec’s every movement was strained, his muscles tense, veins like ropes under his skin. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Now of course, you must understand we would never have carried on in such a vein within the hearing of staff members. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z A watershed map of veins spread out under the surface of their skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But I push that feeling away because the more I think, the more anger rushes through my veins. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z All this in a satiric vein, naturally, since Morgenstern hated royalty more even than doctors. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Inside him the thick dark liquid slid sinuously through his veins. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Nerves twitched, and the vein in one wrist began palpitating. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The gaoler was a furtive little man with broken veins in his nose. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sick fluid of adolescent despair that runs through her veins overflows again into mine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Gnarled lumps of red arteries and blue veins gave Percy some footholds when he had to climb, but the going was slow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A star drifts over her face, the veins beneath her skin glowing blue as it passes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A vein in his neck bulged as he forced the words out, appearing and disappearing every few seconds, a great, struggling snake. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Anger began to simmer in Dimple’s veins, even though she knew she’d provoked him. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There are the breasts, puffy-looking, their nipples bluish, like veins on a forehead. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His face contorted and neck veins bulging, arms and legs driving the pile forward like a running back. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They left through the gap in the wall and flew to the outskirts of the ruins, then followed the vein of iron up out of the valley. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I noticed Dadi’s hands, the soft blue-gray of her veins resting under her thin, dry brown skin. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Somehow, he’d made it home on the jolting bus, made it to this quiet room where he now sat, sun bleeding low in the sky and spurting its veins on the den window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins in her scrawny neck were popping out, she was so ticked off. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each time I lifted my feet, the veins in them tightened and I felt the sand particles digging into my bleeding soles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He understood her when she raged and shook her hips and threw back her head in laughter so furious that it seemed the veins of her neck would burst. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Cut my arm, probably doing irreparable damage to veins and arteries, and then Brutus and Enobaria showed up before she had time to finish me off. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were darkly shadowed, traces of green veins crawled just underneath her pale skin, and Olanna wondered if she was sick. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When he took her hand in his and ran his thumb down the center of her palm, the blood in her veins seemed to freeze. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Light, invincible, unstoppable, infinite light flooded through her veins, filled each of her organs, poured out of her mouth, covered her skin. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Until now he had been too much ashamed of his pale and meager body, with the varicose veins standing out on his calves and the discolored patch over his ankle. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small black stone, dirty and jagged, covered in veins of gray and white like cracked glass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Seems the coal vein took a turn it shouldn’t have and now it’s going the wrong way. I think the geologist is about to get the boot.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z When he held them up to his face he saw that they were scratched and bruised—and the veins were swollen as though he had been grasping hard at something for a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Every time Gat said these things, so casual and truthful, so oblivious—my veins opened. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I cup my wrist and trace the veins there, wondering if I can do the same. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was as though a vein had been opened and my energy syphoned away; I could only stare back mutely. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew the oil that ran in his veins instead of blood. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Shaking all over, every vein throbbing in rhythm with my steps. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I assumed her pallor was the result of being indoors all the time and that the blue vein that beat wildly at her temple was a kind of inner metronome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We didn’t speak but I held Piper’s hand and told her over and over that I loved her through the blood beating in my veins and running down through my hand and into her fingers. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had Dad’s height and Granddad’s chin, and boxing was supposed to run in my veins. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Petey could have been a bee or a butterfly with her tattered silver wings veined with gold, the silver mask hiding her face. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z I feel the warm hiss of their movement through my veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Rahel could see it coursing through his veins, as clearly as an egg traveling down an ostrich’s neck. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to reach through the bars and touch the vein with the blood rushing through it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The kid could find a vein in the dark if you needed that kind of help. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It held a number of small plants, all of them the same kind, with stringy roots and dark, veined green leaves that looked like mint. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He stared at her and as he stared a heat like wine poured through his veins. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His face reddens to a deep crimson, the veins on his neck taut like wires pulled too tight. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He stopped in the doorway and sputtered, the wiry veins and tendons in his face and neck pulsating violently. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He roared into “Africana,” his neck swelling, the veins standing out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The vein in his neck bulges, his head shaking. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “You give him some water and a rasher of bacon,” said Bono, “he’d go on for some time in this vein.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z She was an Egyptian citizen, but Greek blood flowed in her veins. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The veins had been thick and knotted under the thin, frail skin; the fingers were thickened at the joints. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z At last I felt a powerful drowsiness drifting through my veins from all the pinebark wine I had drunk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Every alchemist who had ever lived and died in search of it had had the answer all the time, running through his very veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Even though I know it’s coming, I want to open a vein and drain the serum from my body rather than see it again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Their first item of business involved Arthur Devlin, hat in hand, negotiating new working codes and payment arrangements for the mine workers in exchange for access to the vein running under the town’s land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t even know if there are veins in my stomach, but it sure felt like there were. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The woman continued, “Are my veins shaped like a ‘T’ for ‘trouble’?” She did have some veins on her forehead. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d gone several yards along the loamy vein before he realized no one was following. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The sockets of her eyes darkened and the blue veins at her temples visibly throbbed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Her mouth dry, her blood pounding in her veins, she stepped back. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z My palms are all sweaty, and I’ve got nervousness pumping through my veins. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He clenches the steering wheel; his veins pop up against his skin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Once I had tapped into the vein of doubts, the rest came flooding in. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z His pale skin is so white, I can see the veins in his arms. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She hung up, heart still racing, adrenaline coursing through her veins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The fire in my veins still zipped through me, and I wasn’t sure I could hide my anger for very long. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside was a white paste, thick and heavy, with dark red veins running through it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sun was blazing down, the air was sweet, but every leaf that the wind lifted, every rustle of a pheasant hen in a clump of ryegrass, sent needles of fear through their veins. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins under her skin are the color of the glowing water butterflies. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hamlet said with an intensity that made the veins in his temples stand out In a strange passion himself, he seemed desperate to control the players, their every movement and word. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His heart wouldn’t stop racing, and it felt as if the organ pumped acid through his veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Spidery networks of veins bulged against maroon flesh. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The bony ribs of the wing stood out as high as a hill, and the arteries and veins gleamed like wires of fine-spun ruby and turquoise pressed into a thin sheet of jade. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Guilt pumped through my veins as his perturbed face read, Traitor. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In the veins of turtles coursed a sweet lassi that had to be drunk as soon as it spurted from their necks, because it coagulated in less than a minute. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Only the throbbing veins in her tightly clasped hands told of her torment. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry could see a vein flickering horribly on Snape’s greasy temple. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His pointed beard was veined with white, as were his eyebrows, arched like poisonous centipedes. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Red marble, its white veins illuminated in the light of the sun, which slowly vanished as the opaque glass doors groaned shut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Blood rushes through it and sluggishly moves through her veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Conversing in this vein they went home, the two together, into the stone farmhouse. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Not screaming, not through clenched teeth, not with the veins pulsing in my forehead, but calmly. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I am a prince ofDome, and the blood of dragons is in my veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you looked close at her eyelids you could see little blue veins on them, which I thought was weird. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “He took your blood and rebuilt his living body with it! Your blood in his veins, Harry, Lily’s protection inside both of you! He tethered you to life while he lives!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the same vein, it stressed the importance of accepting the evidence of your own eyes, rather than believing implicitly the words handed down from past generations—the Ancients were not infallible. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He shouted them, the veins standing out in his forehead. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Thomas couldn’t believe he was still looking upon a human being—the madness in Ben’s eyes, the phlegm flying from his mouth, the pale skin stretched taut across his veins and bones. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It missed the spinal cord by a hair, missed the medulla oblongata, and traveled through her head just underneath the brain, missing every major vein, artery, and nerve. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The tsar frowned at her, and her blood froze in her veins. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z They were the size of toddlers, with rolls of baby fat, but their skin had a strange greenish hue, as if chlorophyll ran through their veins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In a minute all that was left of the man was a frayed mess of veins and entrails hanging from the monster's mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z If the truth were to be known, anyone with a pot and a fire would try to make gold, drawing spirit from their veins, or stealing it from others. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When black blood was money, the savvy businessman knew to open the vein. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Look at the shape of the stone and that little vein running through it. It’s definitely the same.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The skin on his hands and face was milky white, almost translucent, showing the branching veins. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Moss grew thick between its ancient stones, spiderwebbing up its walls like the veins in a crone’s legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I say”—the veins on his neck stuck out with the effort of raising his voice to an audible level—“I say, It sure fly good.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z How was it that his voice was so cool when the hand holding the chalk was so tense, the veins sticking out, as if threatening to burst through the flesh? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You were each hooked up to a contraption that dripped medicine and food and water into your veins, Celina Aunty explained. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Around me, a few trails vein off into the hillside. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The holy man’s mouth was set in a tight line, and a large vein near his temple throbbed dangerously. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I felt a brief relief for that, but the pain in my foot returned, causing the veins in my entire body to tighten. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He could feel every vein and artery in his body threading fire through his frame, if it was not ice that they pumped: he could not tell. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z It rises from the earth, answering my call as it courses through my veins in a sudden rush. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And Lazlo wasn’t a creature of anger or envy, but he felt the scorch of both—as though his veins were fuses and they were burning through him, leaving paths of ash in their wake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I felt the blood tingling in my veins. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sierra took a deep breath and studied her old grandfather, the blue veins along his crinkled arms, the deep-brown eyes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “It’s buried a hundred and fifty feet underground. Maybe I’ll start working triple shifts. Then I can buy a piece of that coal vein and somebody might have a little leverage against Devlin.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z If Ivy didn’t know magic to be gone from the world, she might wonder if Gran had a drop or two running in her veins. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z To the Shiite Muslims of Iran, the sayyed were religiously important because the blood in their veins was Muhammad’s, and the blood in his was God’s. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Its dappled, highcrowned roadways make safe homes for birds; quick squirrels run the veins of its treasure-giving hand; but the ground below is dead. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It advised that a knife should be “inserted into the neck” to sever the arteries and veins running through it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Their legs were big and pasty and covered with spider veins. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My clothes on fire, poison coursing through my veins, I plummeted toward the river. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Not in a way to make me fear, but rather to tighten the muscles in the pit of my stomach and send my pulse hammering through my veins again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He felt the structure of the veins, the pulse of its misfortune, and felt the damp palm with a lifeline cut off at the base of the thumb by the claws of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I keep going, because now I’m fascinated by the way Roamer’s veins are throbbing, and the way his head looks like a lightbulb, all lit up and too bright. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The little vein in his temple is throbbing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I looked up at my father, at his purple face, at the vein pulsing in his neck. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My pulse accelerates to the beat of her unsteady heart rhythm and the slow chugging of her blood moving through her veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z After all, this hospital is full of people having poisonous chemicals pumped into their veins or submitting to horrible operations all so they can stay, but some of them will die anyway. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Although her fingers were bent with arthritis now, and I could see her veins, I pictured her young hands covering her young face so many years ago. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It always began in his chest, a swelling anxiety that blossomed through his veins, gripped his heart, spread up his spine, pressed against his eyes, the pressure often morphing into a migraine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The veins in his arms pulsed as he clasped her hand still more tightly. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z That, I thought, noticing the throbbing of a vein that rose between his eyes, thinking, He called me that. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her legs were crossed with veins and her eyes were sunk in a web of generous wrinkles that did not make her look old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tasha takes the ball from the floor and says, “I feel like my veins are full of sand.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As she spoke, Lucy turned crimson, though it was only momentarily, for her poor wasted veins could not stand for long such an unwonted drain to the head. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The endocrinologist tapped a vein in my arm, filling an alarming number of vials with my blood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Fear not, my little friend. The blood of Aegon the Dragon flows in her veins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But soon enough the Rusty Ruins appeared below, and the board’s metal detector guided Tally to the natural vein of iron. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Ferris turned down a rutted dirt road, made even bumpier by the roots that crisscrossed it like the veins on an old man’s hands. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Durham! and as if by magic, everything springs into new life, the veins and arteries of business throw off their stagnation and the bright sun of prosperity sends its radiant beams out upon the world... The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All these different veins, but who knew which one led to the heart? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z While Dad read, I monitored the telltale vein in the top left corner of his forehead. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Each note courses through me, rushing like warm rivers in my veins. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He revived the famous Maxwell brothers who found a vein of gold and hid the traces of it so carefully that they could never find it again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She let go with a flick that triggered the veins to fall neatly into place. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Days later, shirt returned and her own retrieved, Pearl still felt Lexie’s confidence fizzing in her veins. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Bloodlust still sings in my veins, and it’s no easy thing to shut it off so quickly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z She was more conscious than ever of the rhythm of the blood in her veins, but she felt oddly disengaged from her breath. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We learned that Tad Schmitt found a bright blue vein of gas still burning when he was clearing rubble from what used to be the school’s crawl space. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A faded vein under the lady’s see-through skin moves as she furrows her brow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His hands were in fists and the veins in his arms bulged like tree roots. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Then slowly on the surface, where the wizard’s hands had passed, faint lines appeared, like slender veins of silver running in the stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The Redforts were an old name in the Vale, she knew, with the blood of the First Men in their veins. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If one of those veins popped when he stepped on it...Percy shuddered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “At first they could not find a vein, and I was so scared.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Thyon recalled the jest—the easy teasing tone of it—as he drew another long, ill-advised syringeful of spirit from his own overtaxed veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I reached for his hand, pressed my thumb against his wrist, and felt the blood going through his veins. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When princes defaulted on their debts to lesser banks, ruined bankers sold their wives and children into slavery and opened their own veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marly felt as if her blood had stopped running in her veins. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Harry could tell that Uncle Vernon was thinking it over, even if his teeth were bared and a vein was throbbing in his temple. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Comfort settled itself in her stomach and a kind of skipping, running light traveled her veins. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the pale one, its scales the color of butter cream, veined with whorls of gold and bronze, and Dany could feel the heat of it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A red vein stood out on his forehead and he began to hit the table angrily with his fists. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z His interference did little to quell the rage burning in my veins. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Mama is really somebody,” thought Francie as she held her marshmallow down with her spoon and watched the melting white sworls vein the dark chocolate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In one thin arm, threaded with veins in a kind of senescent bas-relief, was a basket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And there’s enough evidence in this house and in our veins to prove that you were drugging us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z One extremely large vein in Mr. Dimblewit’s forehead looked like it was about to explode as he gave the Gran a tight smile. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He sits on the edge of the bed, touching her pale skin, so thin now he can see the veins beneath. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I held each dog as the doctor injected nembutal into its veins to make it unconscious; then I held the dog’s jaws open as the doctor inserted the scalpel and severed the vocal cords. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “This house!” shrieked Uncle Vernon, the vein in his forehead starting to pulse. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was standing with some of the guys from the baseball team, strong, tan arms crossed so hard across his chest that the veins etched an imprint in me. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Harry did not doubt that speech would return to him, and soon — the vein pulsing in his uncle’s temple was reaching danger point — but something about Dumbledore seemed to have robbed him temporarily of breath. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The gods of the sept had noth-ing to do with him; the blood of the First Men flowed in the veins of the Starks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His arms were forged of steel, his backbone was the railroad, and in his veins was the coal that powered them both. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The leech's tiny teeth bite into the vein, and its secretions start to flow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The chill in my veins didn’t return, but halfway up the first flight, I stopped and looked back the way we’d come. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z My eyes trace the thin, blue veins of his arms and the outline of muscle in his shoulders and stomach and legs. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At 8:23:55 Prince Humperdinck rose roaring, the veins in his thick neck etched like hemp. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mulch followed a loamy vein through a volcanic fold in the rock. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A pair of eyes peered down through lenses as thick as the bottom of a Coca-Cola bottle, eyes protruding, luminous and veined, like an old biology specimen preserved in alcohol. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not easy to find a vein to give him morphine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Two police cars showed up and the buses made their way to the stadium in a swirling wind that sent little veins of dust down the empty road like slithering snakes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not been barbecued I couldn’t even feel the Chimera poison boding in my veins anymore. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z By eight o’clock in the morning, weariness had settled into our veins, our limbs, our brains, like molten lead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Still... standing at Neptune’s altar, he felt something stirring inside him, like waves rippling through his veins. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Even from here I can see veins bulging to the surface of his arms, his face. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A surge of heat pulsed through Thomas’s veins. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I was on duty and squeezed the air back down his vein toward the puncture in his elbow. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She plucked up a leaf with deep purple veins and spun it between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He stood quite still, holding the miraculous paper in his nerveless fingers while inside him a kind of quiet eruption sent joy and grief thundering in equal measure through his veins. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They were the veins of this city he loved, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Pure Irish, ma’am. Not a trace of anything lower flows through my veins.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Rainclouds over dark towers, rain falling in deep streets, a dark storm-beaten city of stone, through which one vein of gold winds slowly. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I lightly trailed my hand over the perfect muscles of his arm, followed the faint pattern of bluish veins inside the crease at his elbow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The backs of her legs were mapped with dark blue veins, and her upper arms sagged like the flesh of a roasted eggplant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My mind shouted so energetically that the announcement made my veins stand out, and my mouth tighten into a prune. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan set her hand on mine; her veins ran a pale blue like the rivers on one of our maps. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I wanted to laugh for no reason and a little vein in my forehead was throbbing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Men that saw them whispered saying: ‘Belike the old tales speak well; there is Elvish blood in the veins of that folk, for the people of Nimrodel dwelt in that land once long ago.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Aberforth seemed lost in contemplation of his own knotted and veined hands. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z What she saw was how her mother stood there, suddenly immobile, as if her veins had solidified within her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Upon the creature’s back were wings made from soiled white tarpaulin or hospital curtains, melted onto the flesh and veined with throbbing arteries. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The veins in my arms rise like angry snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Both excitement and anxiety warmed his skin, pumping blood hard and fast through his veins and making it harder and harder to keep still. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The medical team’s main concerns — damage to my spinal cord, airway, veins, and arteries — have been allayed. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The memory made him queasy; he hoped Alby was completely healed from the ordeal so he didn’t have to witness something like that again—the sickly skin, the veins, the thrashing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “We’ll start with your left hand, cutting the knuckles and inserting the medicine into your veins. Then we’ll do the right.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Taisin had forgotten the way it infused every leaf with vibrant color, causing the veins to stand out in sharp relief against the tender green. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Come, you, and gaze upon the tar man! Blackly he reposes, tender face the color of soot, withered limbs like veins of coal, feet lumps of driftwood hung with shriveled grapes!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Beneath her cape, Nina lifted her hands, sensing the flow of blood in the guard’s veins, the tissue of his lungs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I stood blinking stupidly at her, the blood pounding in my veins, and my carefully rehearsed plans for a goodbye kiss forgotten, when unexpectedly she flew up and threw her arms around me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The skin is paler than either Ashima’s or his own, translucent enough to show slim green veins at the temples. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Little flecks of metal slice through my veins. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She raised the beer can, emptied it, then thoughtfully rolled the empty can between her veined and freckled hands. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see his whitened knuckles around the handle and the thick veins standing out in his forearms, but I couldn't do anything to stop him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now I can walk about and talk and answer questions without fear of having suddenly to lean against the wall because the world turns soft as rubber and my veins become brimstone. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were thick with cataracts and sunken into folds of transparent skin, and her whole face was dotted with broken veins and liver spots. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The veins in my neck feel like they're going to explode. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I knew' it when I looked into that dark tunnel under the railway line, my blood turning to ice water in my veins. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z His face reddens, And a blue vein Deepens on his neck — Four, five, six . Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The cooing and stroking was like warmth moving through Hanako’s veins. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The main path looked like an arm with the veins stripped out, long slashes where flooding had washed the gravel away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z At the Cyclopes’ feet, a red vein in the ground burst open, spraying the monsters with liquid fire from the Phlegethon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Each cloak was fastened about the neck with a brooch like a green leaf veined with silver. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A new patient had come to him asking what she could do about the spidery veins on her cheeks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hands were bony, and there were veins so close to the surface that it looked like you could rupture her skin if you touched her too hard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The champagne still streaming through my veins lulls me to sleep. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Beneath that, she felt the heady rush of the woman’s power, as if her veins ran with fire. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Uneasily the four men in the court shifted and opened their mouths, and once the captain, the veins on his face bulging, showed a few little tears in his eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I had risen up in bed, I bent forward: first surprise, then bewilderment, came over me; and then my blood crept cold through my veins. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z And she too had veins in her neck. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He held out his wrists, pale side up, exposing the traceries of veins so that Thyon would be sure to take his meaning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Behind them in the valley, the highway was a faint dark vein through the yellow sand and red rock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that my heart, veins, and arteries had gotten used to weightlessness and needed a little while to readjust to gravity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the holes in her hand, the blood in her veins was blue. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It becomes obvious that I don’t quite fit in with my relatives, although the same blood runs through my veins. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z A vein stuck out right above his temple. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain in Annabeth’s ankle was nothing compared to the icy acid now filling her veins. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She runs a finger along the stone ledge, tracing a vein in the rock. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z A man in an alley offered to buy their blood, but his hands and needles were filthy, and his eyes said he wanted to harvest more than their veins. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone and twitching veins squirming subcutaneously in the blackened hollows behind his eyes like severed sections of snake. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z No. 10 turned to another potentially rich vein of clues: the records of Anna’s incoming and outgoing telephone calls. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z You could see the way their eyes stuck out, and the thin veins along their wings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I position it over the vein in my neck, insert the needle, and press the plunger. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I climb shakily to my feet, rage coursing through my veins. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Clearly, the body could not be manufacturing that much blood and there must really be a lot less continuously circling through the veins and arteries of the body. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In this procedure, a vein was opened and a small amount of blood was drawn off into a bowl. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The deciduous trees stood up in skeleton, like maps of the veins or of the nervous system. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They scrawked, bleated, screamed, flapped, and fluttered, slashing at, and bashing into, each other’s eyeballs and jugular veins. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins of her flight feathers were split and dry. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Grant chewed on his mustache, never a good sign, and the vein in his temple throbbed, an even worse sign. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Just like the lady, a vivid blue vein runs over his left eyebrow, like he’d brushed eye shadow way off course. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And then he kissed me desperately, without warning, and feeling shot through my veins with a searing, explosive heat. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Her skin was so pale, he could see every vein in her body. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The skin was warm, blue veins branching like rivers beneath his pale translucent skin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The pool had dark veins of blood in it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not expected a lecture, but Nemur had seized the floor and he went on in the same vein. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z His neck was thick, powerful, and cruelly muscled; his arms were long, athletic to the point of being simian, threaded with veins, and covered with reddish hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her cheeks were threaded with a web of fine veins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bulging blue veins webbed the backs of his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My photonic heart beat, pushing my glittering blood through my glowing veins. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I study the diagrams of naked people in Understanding Our Universe, all pink and red and yellow, networks of tubes and veins and arteries and organs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His stomach is shaved and tracked with stitches, and his skin is so transparent that even the most delicate veins are visible. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Fat men pressed their faces, snaked with purple veins, against her cheeks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in his sixties and had been a drug addict earlier in his life, making access to his veins difficult. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Moss shivered, the anxiety back and coursing in his veins, and he reached in his locker to grab his book. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Already Kate was on the table at Muller’s with the formalin running into her veins, and her stomach was in a jar in the coroner’s office. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Is there a mine near here? A vein of some metal ore?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His body tensed; the veins rose to bursting on his streaming forehead. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd thought, the idea of some strange magic coursing through her veins. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Overhead was a dark purple skin with gray veins. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Christina turns her arm over and slaps the inside of her elbow until a vein stands at attention. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He'd slid his fingers into my tongue and was clasping my throat and pinching the veins that take oxygen to my brain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The Hardy Boys did spying for the cause of good, and I have always felt mine is in this same vein. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A doctor cut his bones, then sealed each artery and vein. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The veins on his fore head stood out as his fierce red eyes watched the trembling face of the old man, whose eyelids were shaking uncontrollably. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I study the heart, the ventricles, the arteries, the bones, the liver, the kidneys, the spleen, the lungs, the blood that runs through the veins. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z All I’ll need is air and a clear shot at one of his veins. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Walking paths, like veins in a leaf, weave through the green below. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, there’s not enough of the drug left in my veins for me to ignore the pain in the left side of my body. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Huge pale hands groped for her while veins bulged along Biter's arms, but the bonds held, and finally the man collapsed backward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I remarked to him upon the prominence of the veins that crossed her cheeks, which I followed with a finger. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I locked my eyes on Rose, on that bowed cord of vein and muscles that curved from her earlobe down her neck to her collarbone, and took a quick step to the right and forward. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z She walks quickly into my room, portable phone to her ear, her palm so tight around the receiver, I can see the veins on the top of her hand. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She could feel the steady beating of her heart, the rhythmic pulsing of her blood through her veins, and beneath her the dense, solid earth. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Trees blazed like torches; the sap in their veins boiled and split them asunder, the pitch in the conifers caught like naphtha, the twigs seemed to blossom with ferocious orange flowers all in a moment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My heart was pounding so hard that my chest felt like it had stopped pumping blood and was pushing those red beads I put in Maddy's hair through my veins instead. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z “If we did not have the same blood in our veins, I would sell you my daughter,” another said to Jaja. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She had worked for so many years in the dark, her face was chalk white and her blue veins were visible through her skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I follow her veins to the tips of her fingers. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The blood flowed more readily in our veins. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The veins in my arms and hands rise beneath my skin like tiny green serpents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The color spreading on Leon’s face, like his veins had turned into scarlet neon signs. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood in shock, blood frozen in my veins. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a judgment but a tumult in my veins. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The guy sure had a lot of bulging veins in his neck. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z She went on in that vein for a while, castigating herself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Horatio’s words filled my veins with sorrow and touched my heart like the quickest poison, bringing blackness like the oblivion of death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He’s like alcohol in my veins, completely dulling my senses except for what he wants me to feel. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z He was the shortest nineteen-year-old Mark had ever seen, but thick as an oak tree—all muscle and sinew and veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bronwyn was terrifying: She bellowed like a barbarian, the veins in her neck bulging, with Millard’s blood smeared all over her arms and back. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She had traveled half of the trip in a hammock that two men carried on their shoulders, because swelling had disfigured her legs and her varicose veins had puffed up like bubbles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I read the stress in the veins that popped anxious Braille into his neck. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The veins in his forehead were standing out, on each temple a pulse throbbed fiercely. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z And when he told her he could suck the red veins out and make her beautiful again, she believed him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Chuck had exercised as they talked, flexing his arms with nice ferocity, his veins straying over his muscles like snippets of blue yarn. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got ice water in my veins,” I boasted. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Once declared weapon-free, I joined the flow of bodies filling the hallways like blood cells in a vein. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z On the second day of classes she met Billy Richardson, tall and handsome in the Clark Kent vein, and by the end of the month they were going steady. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The veins on Hercules’s neck turned as purple as his robes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Her cloak was the color of blood fresh from a vein. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Polished round and smooth as marbles or lozenges of stone veined and striped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z His head snapped round, and from between his jaws a lance of flame erupted, a swirling storm of orange-and-yellow fire shot through with veins of green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ivy grows on it, leafless now in winter, covering it with skeletal veining. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Something about the direction of the vein,” Jinx answered. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She looks more regretful than relieved, her eyes lingering over the small round table between them, the veins in the marble bluish, like those in cheese. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the same vein, a fierce debate raged between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It sends the blood flying through thy veins to warm thee. Besides, it strengthens thy body and, best of all, it strengthens thy spirit to do a hard thing.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Flee, while there’s still air in your lungs and blood in your veins and warmth in your heart. Flee while you still have your mind and your soul.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He stopped so close that Nico could see the bloodshot veins in his pale watery eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And that the veins stood out in their necks when they said it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Elaine Stein’s words are running hot silver through my veins and I type as fast as I can. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The blue veins on his neck stood out, and his pointing finger almost touched her nose. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The stomach-jump of possible love is nothing compared to the ice floes that block up her veins now. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Maybe the murderer injected bee venom in his veins." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z When I’m done, I rinse the shrimp and then clean up the sinkful of shrimp veins and wash my hands and then get to the dishes. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Yeah, all that is cool, but I want my common African blood in my common African veins,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Brandon was different from his brother, wasn't he? He had blood in his veins instead of cold water. More like me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She never finished the sentence, even in her mind, but the old anxiety snaked through her veins. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Now,” said Mrs. Baker, “while the sugar is coursing through your veins.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even now I still felt a deep and primal terror coil in my veins, and I knew in my heart that it belonged to him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I can see other blue veins just under the skin of her forearms and wrists. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z There were raked gouges in it, next to delicate veined imprints, next to pieces of Bitter’s palm. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He could see the tom veins in the dead man's wrist, iron worms in the pale flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He lay watching the rectangle of window, feeling the warming blood driving through his veins, his arms and legs. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, most people might call me a mongrel, but I have some pretty fancy bloodlines running through these veins and Russian wolfhound happens to be one of them. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z I can see the veins under his skin. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z If something had happened— I ripped off the covers, my blood like ice water in my veins. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z A vein began to pulse at the base of my throat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The nurse stabbed at my veins for twenty minutes, then said they were too small. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His face reddens to a deep crimson, the veins on his neck taut like wires pulled too tight. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They were the veins of this city he loved, after all. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He took the servants’ steps, not the grand stairways of veined marble, but the narrower, steeper, straighter stairs hidden within the thick brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Just so. Said he not that the transfusion of his blood to her veins had made her truly his bride?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His face was purple, veins bulging in his forehead. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The veins in her neck and forehead protrude so much they’re fighting to break through her skin. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Maman circles her fingernail along my wrist, tracing the path of the vein there. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He sat on the ground, his feet bare, his linsey-woolsey blouse veined with dirt, his dark face caked with mud. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z “As though any man ever walked up to another and offered the spirit from his veins. But I couldn’t imagine what motive you could have, so I almost believed it.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Behind his sunglasses, the veined eyes were thinned with fatigue and a most dangerous ice had formed over them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see each twisted vein in her hands as if light flowed through them, rivers of light. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Greenstreet and Macklin also took off their boots and found their feet frostbitten, but they rubbed their toes until they felt the searing pain of blood flowing through their veins. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The wine began to hum through Jake’s veins and he felt himself entering again the kaleidoscope of drunkenness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Father Gomez seemed transfigured; the certainty that ran through his veins seemed to make his very eyes incandescent. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The land we lived on was Cherokee land, allotted to my mother because of the Cherokee blood that flowed in her veins. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The vein in his forehead swelled, his face was dusky red. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Jule felt as if the river underneath her were running through her veins. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But there was something else, too...a current of magic that Aru could feel singing through her veins. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z David had never been any closer to the city than the ruins, so Tally took the lead for once, following the vein of iron that Shay had shown her months before. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Adrenaline pulsed through my veins as the realization of danger slowly sank in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The skin of her face was nearly translucent; her veins were black rivers beneath her temples. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The eyes seemed to grow in size as Nathan could clearly see red veins streaking across their white roundness. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Ivory, dressed in his uniform and smelling of sour sweat, groaned as the needle attached to the IV bag slipped into his vein. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Every drop of blood, every vein twisting under his skin. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The blood in my veins is steaming hot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall, my skin started fading back to a lighter brown, blue veins showing on the inside of my arms. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I feel like a vein is going to burst from my neck. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She inserted a needle into the animals’ leg vein and drew the blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Cold filled Thomas’s veins as Teresa’s words sank in. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Gawaine flushed to the eyebrows, the veins swelling at his temples. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It allows the God of Envy's snake to enter your veins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z His veins ran hot with courage and hope. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And that’s when I saw it, the dark lines curving from his middle knuckle, rounding the ridges of vein, settling just under the cuff of his plaid sleeve. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His nose was lumpy and red with broken veins, his lips thick, and he had a sort of webbing between the three middle fingers of his right hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She is close enough that I can see the small pink veins, like seams on the back of a delicate leaf, spreading across her cheeks, the downy fur on her jawbone, her bristly black eyebrows. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A yellow vein runs through the crimson rock. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Eyrie's plump septon escorted him to the statue in the center of the garden, a weeping woman carved in veined white marble, no doubt meant to be.Alyssa. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure I smell like shrimp veins. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He just ran his thumb along the veins in her wrist. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z His eyes watered and veins popped out on his neck. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It’s juicy and salty and goes straight to her veins. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if fire was shooting through my veins; the pain was so intense that I buried my chin into my chest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ayanna set us down just inside the entrance, and more veins of blue silver lit the passage beyond. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Minya might as well have demanded Have you no blood? or Have you no spirit? because shame as good as ran in her veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Under his feet, the ground glistened a nauseating purple, pulsing with webs of veins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Bind up the vein, if you please,” he said. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The man’s lips parted, and his mouth, his chin, the veins in his neck, the joining of his bones, his shoulder and arm and wrist all turned into light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z A vein popped out on Major's forehead, and his thick arms shook from the strain of keeping his muscles flexed. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I shouldn’t, but it’s harder to suppress gestures and expressions than words, with this weight in my veins. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The veins in his neck bulge out as he prepares to answer me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She laughs again, and the noise is like wine, warm in my veins. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Where his are the color of a kinda-old penny, hers, though brown-spotted, are so pale he can see the blue of her veins. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z In the daylight, her skin was so translucent, her veins seemed to glow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The nurse pops two fingers in the crook of my arm and inspects the veins there. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The needle, in coming out of the monkey, had cut the monkey’s leg vein. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She took his arm and traced a vein from his wrist to his elbow and slid a finger under his rolled-up shirtsleeve. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Their faces turn red, veins on their necks stand out, and they sweat despite the icicles hanging from the trees. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His face is purple, and the veins in his neck are hulking out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was sitting under an umbrella, and she wore a black swimsuit that did not hide any of her midriff bulges or the purple veins on her legs. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Hamlet did not acknowledge my opinion, but went on in his former vein. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Some of them claimed they could feel the difference; the air in their lungs was fuller, the race of blood through their veins faster. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I change it, just as I will the little girl, shaping the flower's fibers and veins and petals. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I tried to pull back, but it felt like he had flooded my veins with concrete. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He seized them, looped the chain across the wolf’s throat, and pulled, the veins in his neck cording from the strain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Zooming past the white water and onto the vein of ore, they sighted the ruins just as the sky was beginning to change. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The blood Of the fruit runs Down to their elbows, Like a vein. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His rough-skinned face was purple with rage, and the veins in his eyes bulged like tiny red worms. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Clyde said with such vehemence that Ignatius was able to see the purple veins swelling around the whitened scar on his nose. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom’s face is strained, a vein popping out of her forehead. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Before I could smile with him, he had stopped, and the veins on his forehead stood up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Doc’s fine hands worked precisely, slipping the needle into place and pressing the compressed air trigger that forced the color into the veins. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We trade places then, and I go three times in a row, till the world looks upside down and tilted and I feel the blood pumping hard in my veins. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The veins on Miss Celia’s arm look black under her skin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He knew the rivers and rails, the ruins and natural veins of ore, and dozens of escape routes he’d devised in case he was ever pursued by city authorities. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Muscles snapped and veins broke as Ben studied the waters with sleep-hungry eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was injecting the veins and arteries of small dogfish with color mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to ignore the veins in my feet pulsing in and out. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Eventually, they left the creek, following a vein of iron over a ridge. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z My blood is on fire, boiling in my veins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I stare at our hands, at my slim fingers entwined in his larger ones, at the veined muscles of his forearm, the slight bones of my wrist, the warmth of our skin meeting. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The same wandering blood in his veins was in his sons. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart picked up speed as his blood gurgled through his veins. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Seeded in childhood, watered every day since, fear had sprouted through her veins all her life. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought sent molten geysers of fury pulsing through his veins. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z It seemed to be only weird indents and veins. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Slowly Bat Lady raised a hand so pale it was more vein- blue than white, and pointed a shaky, bony finger in my direction. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In quarries I could see its strata, the dragon’s veins and muscles; the minerals, its teeth and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a vein pulsing in his temple like the one Harry had often admired in Uncle Vernon’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z |
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