Urania arraigns Keats for having made his inroad upon the dragon, unguarded by wisdom or by scorn.

Unless, therefore, we arraign the first principle upon which a free government can be supported, and without which every exercise of arbitrary power would be warranted, we must allow that such a people will be faithful to such a prince, will defend him with a strict fidelity, and support his quarrel with the utmost zeal; with a zeal which can never be expected from the mercenary troops of any other foreign power.

"Arraign the prisoner at the bar.

Take him over to court and arraign him!"

"And arraign him as hard as you can; for he really frightened me nearly to death, the terrible man!" "Leave him to me, ma'am!" adjured the captain "Will you have your butler act as complainant sir?"

To rise up, to attack its enemy manfully, to arraign the causes of the national decline, to approach boldly the solution of the most formidable problem which could be propounded here on earth, such is not the act of a nation of calculators.

Can some menial perhaps arraign me before the tribunals and exact from me responsibility?

brand with reproach; stigmatize, slur; cast a stone at, cast a slur on; incriminate, criminate; inculpate, implicate; call to account &c (censure) 932; take to blame, take to task; put in the black book. inform against, indict, denounce, arraign; impeach, appeach^; have up, show up, pull up; challenge, cite, lodge a complaint; prosecute, bring an action against &c 969; blow upon.

For, in denouncing the "vile attacks which had been made on his Majesty in the public press," and disclaiming all share in them (a disclaimer which however true of himself, could not, it is believed, have been uttered with equal truth by all his colleagues), he pointed out that "it ought always to be recollected that it is contrary to the principles of the constitution to arraign the personal conduct of the sovereign."

What, if the consuls behaved in a tyrannical or cruel manner against any of the citizens, was it not open to him to appoint a day of trial for them, to arraign them before those very judges against any one of whom severity might have been exercised?

The consequence was, that the authorities were forced to give way, vindicating their right of choice as to the party they should arraign.

The Clerk of Arraigns took his place behind his table under the dais; the counsel suspended their conversation and fingered their briefs; and, as the judge took his seat, lawyers, officials, and spectators took their seats, and all eyes were turned towards the dock.

The Clerk of Arraigns now rose and, reading from the indictment which lay before him on the table, addressed the prisoner "Reuben Hornby, you stand indicted for that you did, on the ninth or tenth day of March, feloniously steal a parcel of diamonds of the goods and chattels of John Hornby.

The Clerk of Arraigns, having noted the prisoner's reply, then proceeded "The gentlemen whose names are about to be called will form the jury who are to try you.

" This proclamation was followed by a profound silence, and after a brief interval the Clerk of Arraigns turned towards the jury and addressed them collectively "Gentlemen of the jury, the prisoner at the bar stands indicted by the name of Reuben Hornby, for that he, on the ninth or tenth of March, feloniously did steal, take and carry away a parcel of diamonds of the goods of John Hornby.

But when he comes forth as the supporter of such a fellow as Fife, under the plea that the laws have been violatedwhen he arraigns the acts of thirty of the inhabitants of this place, it is high time for him to reflect seriously on the consequences.

Mark the murderous threat of the editorwhen he arraigns the acts," (no matter how murderous) "of thirty citizens of this place, it is high time for him to reflect seriously on the consequences.

After the abolitionist has granted that slavery is wrong, we have the right to judge him by his own principles, and arraign him for inconsistency that, so believing, he helps the slaveholder by his oath.

But there was one complaint he had against them all, domestics and praedialsthey always hold him to the letter of the law, and are ready to arraign him before the special magistrate for every infraction of it on his part, however trifling.

But when he comes forth as the supporter of such a fellow as Fife, under the plea that the laws have been violatedwhen he arraigns the acts of thirty of the inhabitants of this place, it is high time for him to reflect seriously on the consequences.

Mark the murderous threat of the editorwhen he arraigns the acts," (no matter how murderous) "of thirty citizens of this place, it is high time for him to reflect seriously on the consequences.

"Thou, nature, partial nature, I arraign!

"Arraign the prisoner!" roared the Chief: and Judge Harbottle felt the panels of the dock round him, and the floor, and the rails quiver in the vibrations of that tremendous voice.

The judge assumed the crowning badge of the judicial potentatethe black cap; and the clerk of arraigns asked the prisoner at the bar, in the usual form, if he had anything to urge why sentence of death should not be passed upon him.

But that committee, taking a different view of its duty from that which I should have supposed had led to its creation, instead of confining itself to the objections urged against the bill availed itself of the occasion formally to arraign the motives of the President for others of his acts since his induction into office.