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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

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

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

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 by Various

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

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

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

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 Henry Hart Milman

Trained by years of experience in a Court where intrigue imbrued the very atmosphere, ordinarily he was equal to any emergency.

From Beatrix of Clare by Clarence F. Underwood

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 Emile Verhaeren

Sunday morning; The Southern Cross in digger's gore imbrued, Was torn away, and left the diggers mourning!

From The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni

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

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

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