Her legs were blue-veined and as white as candles. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
Her crossed hands lay on her wide blue-veined shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873] Reference
The hand was ribbed with tatters of pale, blue-veined skin. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
The ceiling was lapis-lazuli; the floor of blue-veined marble. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
Impulsively Mrs. Gray stretched forth a little blue-veined hand. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
I read her annoyance through her blue-veined eyelids: Puh-leese!. From Wordnik.com. [Sheila Weller: Life-Lessons From My Mother, The National Enquirer Scoop Artist] Reference
He had made himself a weapon for those slender, blue-veined hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
The hand in which he held the white, blue-veined foot shook a little. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon out of Reach] Reference
He looked at his thin blue-veined hand that found the beads so heavy. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Presently a thin, blue-veined hand stole out in the darkness and found. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
Weider steepled his spidery, blue-veined fingers in front of his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Angry Lead Skies]
Enosh lifted a thin, blue-veined hand to quiet the warrior's suspicions. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Wanderer]
I made reverence and would have passed, but he put out his blue-veined hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
He had long thin fingers and the backs of his slender hands were blue-veined. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Sophia kissed the shiny knuckles, wetting the blue-veined hand with her tears. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
Prefect Laboughe clenched his old blue-veined hands on the ivory head of his cane. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
Transparent, blue-veined wings shrouded a reptilian face with two great black eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons of Krynn]
She motioned with the fan at a door, and he saw the thinness of her blue-veined wrists. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Gilbert's withered, wrinkled, blue-veined old body contrasted bizarrely with her youth. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
She looked in the glass as she pushed the black hair back from her blue-veined forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of a War Correspondent] Reference
He pointed at Brendan's tiny hand, blue-veined and gently waving in the fluid of the tank. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
The interrogator's most noteworthy feature was his wrinkled, blue-veined, weathered hands. From Wordnik.com. [Starfishers]
The blond, pale - faced, blue-veined, china-boned exterior brought out the worst in people. From Wordnik.com. [One False Move]
He scuttled forward, a fat, bald little man with blue-veined hands folded before his chest. From Wordnik.com. [The White Rose]
The only thing that gave away her age was the blue-veined hand that trembled on the curtain. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Of Secrets]
One arched and blue-veined foot is slightly raised as if the touch of the marble chilled her. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
Coming around to the front again, I lifted her swollen, blue-veined feet into the sudsy water. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
Rhun turned his head aside, and eyelids blue-veined like the petals of anemones veiled his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrim of Hate]
And now Levi sought and found the thin, blue-veined hands folded peacefully upon the white coverlid. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
His thin, blue-veined hand fell upon Gaston's strong, brown one, which lay spread upon the chairarm. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
She slipped her blue-veined hand within Suzanna's arm and they began a friendly walk up and down the path. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
A tear crept down from the blue-veined lids, making its way through wrinkles, those "dry river-beds of smiles.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
The outer wall, which curved slightly because it was part of the old temple, was lined with blue-veined white marble. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference
There it was, just peeping between the heavy curtains, white and blue-veined, with tapering fingers and shell-like nails. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Hour Stories] Reference
Lady Ashley was wrapped in a white shawl, and her delicate, blue-veined hands were crossed upon her lap in unaccustomed idleness. From Wordnik.com. [A True Friend A Novel] Reference
"I'd hate to come to a time when no one would call me Suzanna," Suzanna said, and she leaned forward and touched the blue-veined hands. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
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