imbrued

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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 Underwood, Clarence F.

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

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 Potts, William Sherman

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

It had stripped its mistress clean of all feeble accomplishments; her hands were imbrued neither with ink nor with water-color.

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry