arrestive

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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