arrestive
Example Sentences
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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
The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn
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)
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
