imbrue

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

Men generally do not specially desire to imbrue their hands in the blood of other men.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope

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

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

A thread imbrued in some of this matter was sent to me, and with it two children were inoculated, whose cases I shall transcribe from my notes.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

Lo, Phædra, Procris, Eriphyle there, Baring the breast by filial hands imbrued, Evadne, and Pasiphaë, and fair Laodamia in the crowd he viewed, 523 And Cæneus, maid, then man, and now a maid renewed.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor

Their hands, then—unless the present ruddying of female fingernails is the revival of an old fashion—were not pink-tipped, save, perhaps, in the way of health; nor imbrued, except in soapsuds.

From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure

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

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

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