imbrued
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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
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 William Sherman Potts
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
Their hands, then—unless the present ruddying of female fingernails is the revival of an old fashion—were not pink-tipped, save, perhaps, in the way of health; nor imbrued, except in soapsuds.
From She Stands Accused by Victor MacClure
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
