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  • This Play has been alter'd by Sir _William D'Avenant_ and Mr. _Dryden_; and tho 'I won't Arraign the Judgment of those two great Men, yet I think I may be allow'd to say, that there are some things left out by them, that might, and even ought to have been kept in.

    Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe

  • Arraign Diopeithes, of course -- but that will not improve matters.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • "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.

    Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • Arraign no mightier thief than wretched Wild; [205]

    The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Alexander Pope 1716

  • This Play has been alter'd by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr. Dryden; and tho 'I won't Arraign the Judgment of those two great Men, yet I think I may be allow'd to say, that there are some things left out by them, that might, and even ought to have been kept in.

    Some Account of the Life of Mr William Shakespear Rowe, Nicholas 1709

  • Arraign him, chain him, plunge him in double fin If after this thou seest a tenderness,

    Falstaff's Wedding: A Comedy 1797

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