The kid didn't hear him approach, had his eyes closed, veins popping like angel-hair pasta on his long, skinny arm.

Today, a full-scale model of the horse stands frozen mid-stride, veins popping, muscles bulging, in a vast foundry here.

He held his chin up, displaying the purple veins popping out of his neck.

"I'm a prisoner," yelled Kaufmann, small blue veins popping around his light blue eyes.

A weightlifter's slab of aged meat, knotted with tiny hard veins popping out of the shoulders, it is just this side of muscle-bound and somewhat grotesque.

When he walks in here, I want those veins popping right up there on the surface of your skin.

His skin was hot and slick, his veins popping in tiny ropes of blue.

Half-dazed he held on, gritting his teeth with the effort, his muscles bulging, veins popping in lightning streaks.

Spastic movements hit Johnny's face--eye tics, lip twitches, veins popping on his forehead.

Michael Martone, veins popping at his temples, was shouting into the telephone in the corner of his ruined auto repair shop.