imbrue

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

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

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

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

Were my hands imbrued in this precious blood?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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