imbrued

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Whether or not the hand of Laskowicz is imbrued in this the future will show.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

No bayings from the forest sound, No cry the empty midnight cuts— The midnight space that grows imbrued With damp breaths from the ashy ground.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Verhaeren, Emile

My hands shall never be imbrued in the blood of my benefactor.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Edgeworth, Maria

The historian Zosimus maliciously asserts, that the emperor had imbrued his hands in the blood of his eldest son, before he publicly renounced the gods of Rome and of his ancestors.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

Were my hands imbrued in this precious blood?

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden