Most of his stories are in the romantic 'vein'. [=are romantic]
He developed 'varicose veins' on his legs in his old age.
white marble with greenish 'veins' running through it
(..) are burnt and purged away But that I am forbid to tell the secrets of my prison house, I could a tale unfold... ...whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul and freeze thy noble veins But this eternal blazon must not be to ears of flesh and blood List, Hamlet, oh list. - Oh God! (..)2015 Hamlet