arrestive
Example Sentences
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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
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
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden
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
