arrestive
Americanadjective
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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
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
His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Saltus, Edgar
The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.
From Ptomaine Street by Wells, Carolyn
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