arrestive
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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
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)
The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn
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
His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar
