imbrue

What! shall we have incision? shall we imbrue?

From King Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare

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

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

Men generally do not specially desire to imbrue their hands in the blood of other men.

From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope

He took a comprehensive glance about the room; then, extracting a dish from he closet, proceeded to imbrue his hands in the strawberries' blood.

From A Modern Cinderella Or, the Little Old Shoe and Other Stories by Louisa May Alcott

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 Eugène Sue

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 Julian Hawthorne

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

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 Emile Verhaeren

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

There is not perhaps a single riot, a single religious outrage in which the middle-classes were not formerly imbrued, because these middle classes were then the mob; but reason and time will have changed them.

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

Now she saw that the woman’s oily diplomacy was only for public use, and that all the while she was imbruing the minds of the little children with the dye of her own thoughts.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Henry Raleigh

Barnwell, instead of imbruing his hands in innocent blood, even "in jest," became the most active agent in rescuing his hapless audience from their perilous situation.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 by Various

In strongly asserting this traditional law, the Inquisitors imagined that they thereby freed themselves from all responsibility, and kept from imbruing their hands in bloodshed.

From The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church by Bertrand L. (Bertrand Louis) Conway