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  • But, though the thrill of conspiracy ran through her veins,

    In Chancery 2004

  • I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,

    Romeo and Juliet 2004

  • The stream of whose rich blood flows in our veins,

    The Persians 2002

  • The stream of whose rich blood flows in our veins,

    The Persians 2002

  • He was still a Melni - bonean -- their rightful leader if he chose to regain his powers of kinship -- and though 'he had an ob - scure urge to wander and sample the less sophisticated pleasures of the outside world, ten thousand years of a cruel, brilliant and malicious culture was behind him and the pulse of his ancestry beat strongly in his deficient veins,

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • He was still a Melni - bonean -- their rightful leader if he chose to regain his powers of kinship -- and though 'he had an ob - scure urge to wander and sample the less sophisticated pleasures of the outside world, ten thousand years of a cruel, brilliant and malicious culture was behind him and the pulse of his ancestry beat strongly in his deficient veins,

    The Weird of the White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

  • I swear, while life-blood warms my throbbing veins,

    History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

  • I have a faint cold fear, thrills through my veins,

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • By our heroes of old, and their blood in our veins,

    Mosaics of Grecian History Marcius Willson

  • There's life, though it throbbeth in silent veins,

    War Poetry of the South Various

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