arrestive
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Rachel could not speak; his eyes were upon her, black, inscrutable, arrestive of her very faculties, to say nothing of her will.
From The Shadow of the Rope by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
The accumulation of carbonic acid in the breathed air would also have a similar arrestive power over destructive assimilation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar
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 Zangwill, Israel
