Crossword-Solution: ARRAIGNERS 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

She stands defiant, arrogant, vigilant, on guard; flinging the lie in the teeth of her arraigners; quick to seize the slightest sign of feebleness in their attack; protesting her guiltlessness so loudly that she shouts truth down by brazen strength of lung; retiring at the close with taunts; blazing throughout with the intolerable lustre of some baleful planet.

And having judged, his hand lays on his heart, And all in concord raised the cry of “Woe!” With threefold echo then the walls repeated, “Woe!”—In that word alone, that single word, A sentence lies! The arraigners understood.

The countenances of many of the male portion of these were recognisable as the same which had, for the last few days, appeared as the arraigners at the trial so speedily about to be terminated, and a certain peculiar expression, common to each, betokening a mind preoccupied by one deeply engrossing topic, might have enabled an uninformed observer readily to select them from the rest.