arrestive
Example Sentences
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The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn
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 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
His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
