arrestive

Example Sentences

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

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar

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

They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.

From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden

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)

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