Here, the landscape is rockier, lonelier and veined with extensive tunnels and caves.

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He was an older man with a silver beard, a monumental, red-veined nose, and a big, thick wool overcoat.

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He controls 2 million acres of austere Russian tundra, veined with icy rivers that host some of the last pristine runs of Atlantic salmon.

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The red-veined darter is a rare visitor from southern Europe and was spotted at Brecknock Wildlife Trust's Brechfa Pool nature reserve above Llyswen.

BBC: Rare dragonfly visitor at reserve

The Cambridgeshire village of Stilton hopes to win public support for its battle to be recognised as the original home of the famous blue-veined cheese.

BBC: Men's Cheese Rolling race, Stilton, 2007

The building's owner had mounted it on the roof in the '60s, and the interior was a wreck shag carpeting and gold-veined smoked mirror tiles on the walls and ceiling.

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