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

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

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

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

From The Grey Room by Phillpotts, Eden