Meanings of imbrue in English

BURNS: But I will never consent to imbrue my hands in innocent blood.

The strife seemed who should get there first, and imbrue his hands in blood.

I conjure you, by your soul's salvation, not to imbrue your hands in my blood!

But our young men are resolved to imbrue their hands in the blood of the whites.

For his gay brother's prow, imbrue that path

Their hands with blood imbrue-

We are bound to absolve without money or price, those who imbrue their hands in the blood of a heretic!

Brothers, friends, neighbors, with hearts full of hatred and ready to imbrue their hands in each other's blood and for what?

What malady, or what tears, or what pity on earth is greater, than to imbrue one's hand in a mother's blood?

He dared not accede to a motion, by which we were to continue for seven years to imbrue our hands in innocent blood.

You are destined to imbrue that little hand in the life current of one who loves you the most of all on earth!

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

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

I am not going to imbrue my hands in your blood; but this tigress would, at a word from me, tear you limb from limb.

And Amasa imbrued with blood, lay in the midst of the way.

Alas, a sword imbrued in the blood of your country!