arrestive

Mr. Dearmer is as arrestive in his way as Mr. Pennell.

Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

The wonderful solidarity of domestic life is an important factor in the Chinese career, for centuries of ancestor-worship, in spite of their arrestive tendency, have strengthened the bonds of family union and filial obedience by insisting on the supreme sanctity of blood-relationship.

Through the Malay Archipelago Emily Richings

The explosion is in place nearest, in time first, and as to sound loudest, but this the most articulate and arrestive fact is employed exclusively for the purpose of producing the subsequent and more distant echo.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

Mr. Dearmer is as arrestive in his way as Mr. Pennell.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

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

The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911

Similarly he could disguise his voice, the natural tones of which were low, monotonous, and of no arrestive quality.

The Grey Room Eden Phillpotts 1911

Her beautiful white shoulders showed up the duskiness of her hair; her head was distinguished and arrestive.

There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

The Swinburne collocation of delicate bosom and death is both arrestive and interesting.

Ptomaine Street Carolyn Wells 1902

Forthwith, my satchel was opened and in a few moments the following arrestive words were scrawled in a mammoth hand: GREAT W.C. T.U. MEETING TO-MORROW

A slaveholder's daughter, 1900

As Loveday and her companion mounted the last of the flight of stairs, the voice of the preacher – full, arrestive, resonant – fell upon their ear; and, standing on the small outside landing, it was possible to catch a glimpse of that preacher through the crack of the half-opened door.

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective 1894