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

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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax

No battle-pike his march imbrued, Unarmed he went midst martial mails, The footsore felt their hopes renewed To hear his homely tales.

From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Oldroyd, Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline)

Were my hands imbrued in this precious blood?

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden