imbrued

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No bayings from the forest sound, No cry the empty midnight cuts— The midnight space that grows imbrued With damp breaths from the ashy ground.

From Poems of Emile Verhaeren by Verhaeren, Emile

Trained by years of experience in a Court where intrigue imbrued the very atmosphere, ordinarily he was equal to any emergency.

From Beatrix of Clare by Underwood, Clarence F.

Were my hands imbrued in this precious blood?

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

A thread imbrued in some of this matter was sent to me, and with it two children were inoculated, whose cases I shall transcribe from my notes.

From The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) by Various

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