imbrue

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

In another minute," said Berry, "I shall imbrue this omelet with tears.

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

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

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

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

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

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

War was war, no doubt; and women must mourn at home while men imbrued themselves in the gallant strife.

From The Mayor of Troy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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

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