arresting
/əˈɹɛstɪŋ/ adjective B2- Striking, gripping.
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“You may or may not have just cause for arresting me,” said he, “but at least there can be no reason why I should submit to the gibes of this person.
“Don’t get arresting me for the murder,” he said.
When I touched him on the shoulder and warned him to come quietly with us, he answered us as bold as brass, ‘I suppose you are arresting me for being concerned in the death of that scoundrel Drebber,’ he said.
“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”
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