He squints closer and closer to try to see the vein and with unsteady hands he tries several more times.
Mitchell concludes that vampire blood isn't enough, he needs the vein-fresh human stuff.
They have also hit a pleasing rich vein of late-season form since being turned over in spectacular style at Old Trafford: five wins on the bounce, a sequence which has included impressive wins at Tottenham and Swansea, plus a six-goal humiliation of QPR.
It provides a rich vein for lexicographers at OUP to mine and helps inform what appears in its dictionaries.
In Shakespeare, The Crowd is only ever one "Friends, Romans, Countrymen…" speech from transforming into The Mob, the baying, vein-bulging, screaming amorphous mass demanding "its right" with no thought for the consequences.
The game was called Kato-chan & Ken-chan – a cheerful platform game in the vein of Super Mario Land, except the lead characters urinated, farted and defecated throughout each level.
Then in April, Oklahoma saw gruesome scenes of officials struggling and failing to find a vein in death row inmate Clayton Lockett, who struggled for 43 minutes, much of it behind a curtain that prevented the media witnessing the events.
The narrow but hugely extended gulch that snakes down from the lifeless upper reaches of Lascar and finishes in the Atacama desert is a thin vein of life where many creatures find sanctuary.
McCreery, a deep-voiced crooner in the same vein as Josh Turner, ended up winning the show, and his debut album Clear as Day defied expectations by going platinum.
However, there may be worries that Hunt is too much in the same vein as Ed Miliband – a well-off, southern intellectual who thinks about politics in an academic way.
The mid-year fiscal and economic outlook (Myefo) in December 2013 was a document dripping with sadness on the economic front, and the budget continues in that vein.
