arrestive
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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 Lorimer, Norma
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)
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
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
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
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