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

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

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

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)

His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.

From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar