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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

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

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

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 the closet, proceeded to imbrue his hands in the strawberries' blood.

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

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

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

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

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

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth

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

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