The purple-veined organ at the bottom right is the bladder. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
Her eyes were closed, if she had eyes beneath the heavy purple-veined lids, so like the petals of some night-flower, pungent with perfume. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
Thirty meters above the purple-veined replicas of Alhurzian morloch vines, the copper-haired woman with the flowing curls that glistened and the bright green eyes that flashed with cold fire sat alone at the box rail table of a baron. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Warrior]
We have recovered tons of marble veneer, apparently composed of green cipollino in the lower part of the curved recesses around three sides of the pool, and of white or purple-veined (pavonazetto) from the Docimian quarries (near Afyon, Turkey) in the upper parts and the rest of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 8] Reference
It is a basin of purple-veined pavonazzetto marble. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
Epilobium coloratum (purple-veined willow-herb), once in 1857. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Advancing, the second then presented three rose-hued purple-veined Circea flowers, the dew still clinging to them. From Wordnik.com. [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)] Reference
There lies the Pacific – blue glimpses of it are rimmed about with hills, some snow-capped, some purple-veined, some misted in rose. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference
His eyes were dark blue, showing the fibrils, like a purple-veined flower at twilight, and somehow, mysteriously, joy seemed to quiver in the iris. From Wordnik.com. [The Trespasser] Reference
Every part is flower, (or fruit,) such is its superfluity of color, -- stem, branch, peduncle, pedicel, petiole, and even the at length yellowish purple-veined leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
In my other box, I put a tall sage with purple flowers in the center, purple-veined sorrel on one side, and catnip, dill and more basil (no such thing as too much basil) on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
A luxurious bathtub by the window affords sweeping views of the adjacent golf course, while purple-veined organic marble is offset with violet and fuchsia fabrics and butter-coloured walls. From Wordnik.com. [TravelDailyNews.com] Reference
There he lay, the fair hair hanging round the white brow with the furrows of pain in it, the purple-veined lids closed over the great bright blue eyes, the long fingers hanging limp and delicate as a lady's, the limbs stretched helplessly on the couch, whither it cost him so much pain to be daily moved. From Wordnik.com. [Friarswood Post Office] Reference
‘The nurses aren’t,’ she said, her plump, purple-veined old face creasing into an impish gleam of amusement. From Wordnik.com. [Here Lies Gloria Mundy]
Would shudder along the purple-veined wrist. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
His white hair, thin and half-combed, straggled over the dark-red, purple-veined skin of his head; his cheeks were flabby bags of bristly, wrinkled leather; his mouth was a sunken, irregular slit, losing itself in the hanging folds at the corners, and even the life, gathered into his small, restless gray eyes, was half quenched under the red and heavy edges of the lids. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Kennett] Reference
But all other vases of startling form and substance, magically articulated, and ornamented with figures in relief, in cameo, in transparency, -- the vases with orifices belled like the cups of flowers, or cleft like the bills of birds, or fanged like the jaws of serpents, or pink-lipped as the mouth of a girl; the vases flesh-colored and purple-veined and dimpled, with ears and with earrings; the vases in likeness of mushrooms, of lotos-flowers, of lizards, of horse-footed dragons woman-faced; the vases strangely translucid, that simulate the white glimmering of grains of prepared rice, that counterfeit the vapory lace-work of frost, that imitate the efflorescences of coral. From Wordnik.com. [Some Chinese Ghosts] Reference
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