imbrued

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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

Sunday morning; The Southern Cross in digger's gore imbrued, Was torn away, and left the diggers mourning!

From The Eureka Stockade by Carboni, Raffaello

The historian Zosimus maliciously asserts, that the emperor had imbrued his hands in the blood of his eldest son, before he publicly renounced the gods of Rome and of his ancestors.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 by Milman, Henry Hart

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 Hawthorne, Julian

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

From Tales and Novels — Volume 02 by Edgeworth, Maria