imbrued
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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
Deluded by the notion that I was playing with a fancy, I was suddenly aroused to find myself imbrued in facts.
From David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales by Julian Hawthorne
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
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
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
