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imbrue

[im-broo] / ɪmˈbrʊ /






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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

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

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare, William

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

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

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 Inge, William Ralph