Great indeed was the rejoicing of Hrothgar and of his people when, in the morning, instead of crimson-stained rushes and the track of vermin claws imbrued in human blood, they found all but one of the men from Gothland alive, and looked upon the hideous trophy that told them that their enemy could only have gone to find a shameful death in the marshes.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang
They also felt that he was irrevocably one of themselves, having imbrued his hands in white man's blood more than once, and already made his name terrible on that part of the frontier.
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne
If a notorious German imbrued in the blood of babes had chanced to be in her hospital, she would have given him his medicine with just the same air.
"The Red Planet"
William J. Locke