imbrue

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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 MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Men generally do not specially desire to imbrue their hands in the blood of other men.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Trollope, Anthony

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 Brown, Charles Brockden

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 Alcott, Louisa May

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 Sue, Eugène