arrestive
Americanadjective
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His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Carolyn Wells
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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 Israel Zangwill
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 Israel Zangwill
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