Noun : a rich vein of coal. ,a vein of pessimism. ,to write in a poetic vein.    From Dictionary.com. 

But to call the veined octopus a tool-making animal is, it seems to me, a bit of scientific overreach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Octopodic quibble] Reference

For a better view; one thin veined hand claws.    From Wordnik.com.  [ON HOGARTH'S ENGRAVING "PIT TICKET FOR THE ROYAL SPORT".] Reference

Sweet veined and blue tinted they round to my sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

They were veined and thin, and the callouses were gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference

Impulsively Mrs. Gray stretched forth a little blue-veined hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

English country with his big, veined hands clasped behind his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sleuth of St. James's Square] Reference

A tree was a tree, whether it bore purple foliage or was red-veined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Over Warlock] Reference

Areolet: one of the small spaces between veins of net-veined insects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

The dark marble columns supporting the central gable are beautifully veined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

The ceiling is supported by twenty-four columns of green veined white marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Handbook of The New York Public Library] Reference

Sophia kissed the shiny knuckles, wetting the blue-veined hand with her tears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

  Fifty cocks adorned her bookshelves and windowsills, perfectly veined, unsold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cock Sculpting] Reference

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

One arched and blue-veined foot is slightly raised as if the touch of the marble chilled her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ideala] Reference

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

Neither would the hand that had made me a thing of wood, caress the blue veined breast of her who was mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of the King] Reference

The man in the doorway laughed as his hands — veined and heartless in their own right — slowly went south.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let This Be the Beginning for I Have Sin to Spread] 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 Lilac Lady extended one blue-veined hand with the imperious gesture which Peace had learned to know and obey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

It is painted in lugubrious white, and its pillars have false bases in a palpable imitation of veined red marble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Dimly Bart saw old Rugel slump forward, moaning softly; saw the old Lhari pillow his bald head on his veined arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference

Phyloptera: the super-ordinal term proposed to include all the net-veined orders, the Orthoptera and Dermatoptera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Missouri rose abruptly chains of snow-capped mountains, glistening in the sunlight and veined with gold and silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference

The exterior is faced with slabs of red sandstone, but the interior is built of marble, white, blue, and gray veined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Far East] Reference

She stooped over Kitty and kissed her -- turned down the sheet to look at her soft blue-veined shoulder and moist white foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference

W.R. Fickes, Wooster, Ohio, reports the Stambaugh there is heavily veined, is oily, soon shrivels and is not very good quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting Battle Creek, Michigan, September 10 and 11, 1934] 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

'Or from Browning some' Pomegranate, 'which, if cut deep down the middle, shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Elongated pupils are suitable for horned game and the cat tribe, irregular pupils fish, and the veined iris for dogs, wolves and foxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration] 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

Lakes to New England, and over the vast area to the southward which is veined by the Ohio River and its tributaries, and extending from the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference