Different minerals are mixed together; pebbles are scattered through masses of rock like plums in a pudding; irregular crevices in otherwise solid masses of rock -- so-called veinings -- are seen to be filled with equally solid granite of a different variety, which can have gotten there in no conceivable way, so Hutton thinks, but by running in while molten, as liquid metal is run into the moulds of the founder. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Erected into the sky as it was, the wet cell did not even partake of the usual character of the building's walls, except for one stain in the alabaster which might have been the underside of a child's footprint; otherwise, the veinings were mockingly meaningless. ❋ Blish, James (1970)
We have seen some kinds of marble, where the veinings happened to be unusually multiplied, in which human faces, figures, processions, or fragments of natural scenery seemed absolutely illimitable, under the endless variations or inversions of the order, according to which they might be combined and grouped. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lapis-lazuli with gold veinings, malachite, coral, alabaster, and rare marbles superseded the smalts and gold of an elder day. ❋ Julia De Wolf Gibbs Addison (N/A)
Sometimes the leaf veinings will be quite distinct. ❋ C. A. Bogardus (N/A)
The contour was in stem stitch, the serrated edges turned over on to the brown surface were in shading stitch, the red veinings in satin stitch. ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)
Do enough to come to the first veinings branching from it; slip the needle across to the braid, in the proper direction, taking a close button-hole stitch to fasten it: cover it with button-hole up to the centre vein; then do the companion one in the same manner, and continue to work each pair as you come to it on the principal veining. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The veinings of the petals, where they occur in this stitch, are made by taking the foundation thread at double the distance from the last one, and working over it a row of ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The veinings of leaves are often worked in Venetian bars, over a ground of Brussels lace. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Titanic stones of the wall of Baalbee, -- mightiest masses of quarried rock that man has lifted into the air; and then I dive into some mass of foliage with my microscope, and trace the veinings of a leaf so delicately wrought in the painting not made with hands, that I can almost see its down and the green aphis that sucks its juices. ❋ Various (N/A)
This is a beautiful marble of feathery purple grey veinings on a creamy white ground. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
These were placed in juxtaposition, with tender mignonette and silvery greens, a strong accent being _occasionally_ introduced by a flower or filling carried out in true rose leaf shade or by veinings of bronze greens and browns. ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)
The veinings of the _kris_, beautiful as those of any Toledo blade, are produced by the welding of metals steeped in lime-juice and arsenic, which destroy the iron and retain the ingrained pattern. ❋ Emily Richings (N/A)
A group of fillings in which darning plays an important part, the backgrounds of two of the leaves were carried out in indigo, the veinings were worked in solid rows of outline stitch in brown shading to ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)
Levanto marble of reddish brown tint with small veinings of white. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
Having nobody to tell her story to, -- having, as she said in her verses, no musical instrument to laugh and cry with her, -- nothing, in short, but the language of pen and pencil, -- all the veinings of her nature were impressed on these pages, as those of a fresh leaf are transferred to the blank sheets which inclose it. ❋ Various (N/A)
And yet, for his time, how virile and vigorous he sounds beside "Posies out of Rings", of his friend Theodore Peters, of the renaissance cloak, the cherry coloured velvet cloak embroidered in green leaves and silver veinings, so full of the sky radiance of Dowson himself, this cloak. ❋ Marsden Hartley (N/A)
The leaves, Example I & II, satin stitch with stem stitch outline both sides, centre veinings in stem stitch, turnover in leaf, II, in block stitch. ❋ Ada Wentworth Fitzwilliam (N/A)
He recalled every detail of her face, the fine veinings of the temples, the bluish-brown shadows in her upper lids, and the way the reflections of two stars seemed to form and break up in her eyes when he held her close to him ... ❋ Unknown (1912)
She looked at the subdolous, pale-green eyes, with their predatory restlessness, at the square-blocked, flaccid jaw, and the beefy, animal-like massiveness of the strong neck, at the huge form odorous of gin and cigar smoke, and the great, hairy hands marked with their purplish veinings. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
