imbrue

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

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

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

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

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

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

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

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

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Maria Edgeworth

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 Henry James

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

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

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

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