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The hazards attending my re-entrance were to be boldly encountered, and the torments of unsatisfied thirst were to be patiently endured, rather than imbrue my hands in the blood of my fellowmen.

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

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

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

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

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 yearned mightily to take her soft, sleepy form in his arms for once before they were imbrued; but he dared not, knowing she would instantly interpret the act as a possible farewell.

From Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest by William Sherman Potts

No battle-pike his march imbrued, Unarmed he went midst martial mails, The footsore felt their hopes renewed To hear his homely tales.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd

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

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

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

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