He could not have returned a better answer to the reproach of the pope, that he excited the laity to imbrue their hands in the blood of the clergy.
Dost thou not behold him, in his ungodly wrath, instigating laymen to imbrue their hands in the blood of the priests, and overturning the churches of our Lord?
What malady, or what tears, or what pity on earth is greater, than to imbrue one's hand in a mother's blood?
Thou wilt not[26] be able, when thy children fall suppliant at thy feet, to imbrue thy savage hand in their wretched life-blood.
No one possessing the meek Christian feeling of brotherly love and charity towards all men, could thus wantonly imbrue his hands in the blood of a fellow-creature.
Think you that men who thus wantonly imbrue their hands in the blood of the innocent can be held guiltless in the presence of Him who abhorreth the wicked and cruel man?
The prisoner of war is no longer led into the amphitheatre to become a gladiator, and to imbrue his hands in the blood of his fellow-captive for the sport of a thoughtless multitude.
He dared not accede to a motion, by which we were to continue for seven years to imbrue our hands in innocent blood.
She bids thee imbrue thy bloody hands And filthy lecherous mind With Venus’ damsels, void of shame, Where such thou haps to find.
A witness I am against all murderers, plotters, and all such as would imbrue the nation in blood; for it is not in my heart to have any man's life destroyed.
Then he charged me as an enemy to the King, that I endeavoured to raise a new war, and imbrue the nation in blood again.
O traterous villaines, hold your murthering hands, Or if that needes they must be washt in blood, Imbrue them heere, heere in Cornelias brest.
The remainder of the prisoners were from the city of Bayonne, whose inhabitants, though Catholics, had nobly refused to imbrue their hands in the blood of that horrible massacre which Charles IX.
Some Roman Catholics were found not only unwilling to imbrue their hands in the blood of their Huguenot neighbors and friends, but actually ready to incur personal peril in rescuing them from assassination.
