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arrestive

[uh-res-tiv] / əˈrɛs tɪv /








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Her beautiful white shoulders showed up the duskiness of her hair; her head was distinguished and arrestive.

From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer

It was an arrestive rather than a beautiful face, though charming enough when she smiled.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Israel Zangwill

Before turning to one rather arrestive parallel, a word may be said on Graetz's idea, that Canticles uses the expression "love's arrows."

From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams

The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.

From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells

They give out arrestive thoughts, and you are vastly impressed, but on longer acquaintance, or on returning to them after an interval, you find that it is they who have been arrested by their thoughts.

From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill




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