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Meanings of arrests attention in English

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Usage of arrests attention in English
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The combination which more immediately arrests attention is that with the ludicrous.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 / A Maga...
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He has a magnetic touch that arrests attention and atones for technical shortcomings.
Promenades of an Impressionist
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One of the first things that arrests attention is the description of the villages.
The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races
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One of the features of Roman greatness, which preeminently arrests attention, is military genius and strength.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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Among Mediterranean peoples, both in ancient days and at the present time, the Spring Festival arrests attention.
Ancient Art and Ritual
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The mere bulk of the literature, even if we allow for considerable repetition of incident, arrests attention.
Gods and Fighting Men / The story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of...
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He arrests attention-thisgaunt, restless preacher.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
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The next table arrests attention:
Civics and Health
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The portrait instantly arrests attention.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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It arrests attention at once, for half-way up it is furrowed horizontally as though worked by a giant's tool.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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The relative importance of elements, too, is determined rather by some intrinsic quality which arrests attention than by any supremacy as meanings.
The Principles of Aesthetics
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It was not the number of men employed in the armies which particularly arrests attention, but the spirit and genius which animated them.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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His time of preparation is unnoticed by the world until the moment comes when he is called to a public activity which arrests attention.
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
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But it was the sort of oddity that arrests attention, and people's attention once caught was apt to be held by the man's transparent earnestness.
Abraham Lincoln
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