arrestive

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden

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

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