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arresting

/əˈɹɛstɪŋ/ adjective B2
  1. Striking, gripping. (figuratively)
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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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 26 · C1
“Don’t get arresting me for the murder,” he said.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 42 · B2
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.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 64 · B2
“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 75 · B2

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