imbrue

The citizen of heaven knew that it was his duty to 'hunt Sarmatians' on earth, though he was not obliged to imbrue his hands with 'Cæsarism.'

From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

If I had continued to imbrue myself either in bloody crimes or the fierce drunkenness of the life of the galleys, this salutary change would never have come over me I know full well.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

He took a comprehensive glance about the room; then, extracting a dish from he closet, proceeded to imbrue his hands in the strawberries' blood.

From A Modern Cinderella Or, the Little Old Shoe and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

In another minute," said Berry, "I shall imbrue this omelet with tears.

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

This strange affray, What can it mean, magnanimous Prince? would you So bright a blade imbrue In blood that age already doth congeal?

From Life Is a Dream by Denis Florence MacCarthy

It had stripped its mistress clean of all feeble accomplishments; her hands were imbrued neither with ink nor with water-color.

From The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

There is not perhaps a single riot, a single religious outrage in which the middle-classes were not formerly imbrued, because these middle classes were then the mob; but reason and time will have changed them.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

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

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Creditors stormed at us from every side, urged on by lawyers who imbrued their hands in our misery.

From Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. by Emilie Michaelis

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

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth

In strongly asserting this traditional law, the Inquisitors imagined that they thereby freed themselves from all responsibility, and kept from imbruing their hands in bloodshed.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway

Barnwell, instead of imbruing his hands in innocent blood, even "in jest," became the most active agent in rescuing his hapless audience from their perilous situation.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

Now she saw that the woman’s oily diplomacy was only for public use, and that all the while she was imbruing the minds of the little children with the dye of her own thoughts.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh