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Definition of Embruing
1. embrue [v] - See also: embrue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Embruing
Literary usage of Embruing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1899)
"... of liberty and good government "without embruing their hands in blood."
The felicitation was premature. Lane's thanksgiving proclamation bore the date ..."
2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians ...by Charles Rollin by Charles Rollin (1815)
"... of wiping out his shame, by embruing his hands in the most horrid murder.
When once a man is determined to die, he h vastly strong and formidable. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"The reader will not readily accommodate himself to the sudden religious tranquillity
of one whom he has just seen embruing his hands in ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1786)
"... for the pencil, when embruing her hands in the blood of Agamemnon. And although
this may be referred to a rule of ..."
5. The Friend of Peace by Noah Worcester (1816)
"... nor escape from him, nor cause him to be confined, he should prefer dying by
a parent's hands to embruing his own in the blood of bis neighbours. ..."
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