imbrued
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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
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
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
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
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
