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She did not look at him, but this was better than meeting his eye with that interceptive glance.

From Indian Summer by Howells, William Dean

So he led her with grave courtesy within the gate, and placed her on a garden seat in front of two trees large of bole, and interceptive of possible missiles.

From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John

Obviously, the interceptive potential of a small square and a larger square do not stand in the same ratio as their areas.

From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.

This circumstance further reduces the interceptive potential because the hours after dark, to which the present telescopic studies have been restricted, comprise the period in which the fewest migrants arrive from over the water.

From A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds. Vol.3 No.2 by George H. Lowery.