Example Sentences

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It was high pitched and strident, as if a relentless lawyer were arraigning a criminal.

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Whilst these two conversed at one end of the room, the other group were arraigning the presumption of the vulgar, and the folly of those who gave it encouragement.

From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Porter, Jane