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We have dirtied our hands enough with lucre.

From Time Magazine Archive

I've played a part I never thought to play; I've done a thing I never thought to have dirtied my hands in the doing, and I'm sorry and ashamed for it.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Not I.  I have dirtied my share of spades myself; but I slipped my leash and went self-hunting.

From The Saint's Tragedy by Kingsley, Charles

Your friend, little Moore, You have dirtied before, But you know that in safety you write: You've declared in your lines, That revenge he declines, For the poor little man will not fight.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle

I'm glad it isn't so; I'd have dirtied my own hands with it too.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various