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Blue-veined

Blue-veined \Blue"-veined`\, a. Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Usage examples of "blue-veined".

The housecarl had a tray heavily laden with small loaves of bread and a huge wedge of blue-veined cheese balanced on one hand, a bottle of wine and two glasses in the other, and a glum expression on his face.

She had turned and looked down, as she always did when human complexities made her seek reassurance as to the worth of this world, on the shiny mud-flats, blue-veined with the running tides, and green marshes where the redshanks choired.

Instinctively she looked down to see what he was doing, and then blushed rosily at the sight of her own breasts, their flesh pale and blue-veined, her nipples in contrast very flushed, very swollen and erect.

She was only an exaggeration of what the other girls all knew they could expect themselves to one day become, and so, embarrassed and ashamed of their own fascination, they stole glances, took furtive glimpses of her, were irresistibly drawn to the sight of her bare flesh--of the dark smudge of hair in her armpits and on her ankles and between her legs, of her milky, blue-veined breasts floating, cloudlike, in the big cups of her thick-strapped rubber and wire and nylon bra, of the firm mound of her belly, her rounded shoulders, the damp doughy creases in her neck, her meaty arms, her bare skin, clear and creamy--as she changed back into her school clothes again at the end of the physical education class.

Evelyn sent the bulges bouncing, now up to the slave number, the black VII, on the chest, now across to the sweating armpits, and then flattening them, driving the teats, areoles and rings into the blue-veined flesh.

Van Alstyne, who showed the frailer Dutch type, with high blue-veined forehead and pale eyes and lashes, made a characteristic Vandyck, in black satin, against a curtained archway.

His blue-veined cheek pouches were more rigid now under the strain.

I stopped in front of a block of blue-veined grey marble with a couple of quill pens in a crystal holder and, underneath, leg room for a behemoth, who was sitting behind the desk.