arrestive

Example Sentences

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Similarly he could disguise his voice, the natural tones of which were low, monotonous, and of no arrestive quality.

From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden

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 Zangwill, Israel

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 Lorimer, Norma

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 Abrahams, Israel

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

From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn