Imitation is the whole sum of him, and his vein is but an itch that he has catched of others, and his flame like that of charcoals that were burnt before.

"Your vein is a fissure vein all right enough, and you've got a good wide lead.

Varicose veins were very serious affairs indeed.

The veins are the blood-vessels which carry the impure blood from the various tissues of the body to the heart.

" He shivered, he shook, he felt like clay; And the fear went through his blood; His face was an awful ashy grey, And his veins were channels of mud.

He excels in the genre of Paul de Kock, and is always striving after the style of Plato; he has a keen perception of the ridiculous and, like Liston or Cruikshank, and other comic artists, persists that his real vein is the sublime.

farther adds, "the veins of their eyes be red, as well as their faces."

" Mary's very best vein is the following letter, written about the same time, and also addressed to her sister: "I am yet in this wicked town, but purpose to leave it as soon as the Parliament rises.

One of the most popular novelists of our day assured me, that, in his opinion, the richest unworked vein for his craft, available in these days of civilized uniformity, is artist-life at Rome, to one thoroughly cognizant of its humors and aspirations, its interiors and vagrancies, its self-denials and its resources.

The veins are the hose which carry the blood back to the heart.

A vein of public spirit, diffusing itself among all ranks of society, is the indispensible concomitant of impeachments and attainder.