Meaning of Veining | Babel Free

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An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.

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“1890, Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, New York: Lovell, Corvell & Co., 1891, p. 32, He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw⟳ the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw⟳ the very insects upon them, the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.”

“His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty.”

“Surrounding, a system of marble paneling applies to the walls, as we know⟳ wood. Sheets of stone, cut⟳ and cut⟳ again so that the veining of each piece may form⟳ symmetrical pattern with its neighbor, alternate with bands of other marbles set⟳ in delicately notched beveling.”

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