Arrested

Examples

• How I do still abhor-- He ground his teeth and was silent: he arrested his step and struck his boot against the hard ground. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I don't want to be arrested. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears that I am arrested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• My attention was arrested by the fact that he walked off after responding, and the sender happened to be a good one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her eye was arrested by what was a familiar sight enough, though it broke upon her now with a new significance. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• And the experience of each party loses in meaning, when the free interchange of varying modes of life-experience is arrested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• By-and-by the noise of the key in the lock arrested them both. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When within two or three feet of Eustacia he stopped, as if again arrested by a thought. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• On what charge do you expect to be arrested? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The bells of a church arrested me in passingthey seemed to call me in to the _salut_, and I went in. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Faust was arrested on the charge of dealing in the black art, and was brought before the court. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here they would never have arrested him. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before been anything against him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Bring with you the limes you have in your desk, was the unexpected command which arrested her before she got out of her seat. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yes, we were all arrested upon his confession. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He's liable to be arrested the moment he sets foot on English ground. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I am sure they should be arrested, cribbed, tried, and brought in for Botany Bay, at the very least. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Are you arrested for much, sir? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You won't mind being arrested after breakfast. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• As Mr. Casaubon's carriage was passing out of the gateway, it arrested the entrance of a pony phaeton driven by a lady with a servant seated behind. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have only to raise my voice and I could call my servants and have you arrested. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• You will let me know when Randall is arrested, and any further developments which may occur. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• This career of conquest was at last arrested by the Emperor Heraclius (610), who set about restoring the ruined military power of Constantinople. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Arrested for all that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Darling, you're liable to be arrested here any time. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Towards the close of the speech there came a pleasing diversion my attention was again amusingly arrested. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Let us have him arrested on his arrival. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He groped; I arrested his wandering hand, and prisoned it in both mine. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• A mandate to remain arrested me. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Enclosed in the letter was a receipt for the debt and costs on which I had been arrested. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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