But before I relate these circumstances, I deem it pertinent to give to the reader the following letter addressed by me to President Johnson, from my place of confinement, charging his Government with a breach of faith in arresting me.
I may even have committed an error in arresting that woman.
The butler understood that in police slang "putting a man through" meant arresting him and putting him through the Criminal Court into gaol.
The idea that he had assisted in arresting the wrong man and had helped to build up a case against him was too unpalatable for him to accept it.
There were people who declared without knowing anything about the evidence the police had in their possession that in arresting the famous barrister the police had made a far worse blunder than in arresting Birchill.
Apparently the police had come to the conclusion that they had blundered inarresting Birchill for the murder of Sir Horace Fewbanks, and had recommenced inquiries with a view to bringing the crime home to somebody else.
He was at first inclined to think that he had made a bit of a fool of himself in his desire to prove to Inspector Chippenfield that he had been hoodwinked by Hill into arresting Birchill.
There is nothing to be gained in arrestingthe wrong man.
But we are more likely to get at the truth by threatening to arrest him than by arresting him.
As Ollyett said our first care was to create an 'arresting atmosphere' round it.
It's the most vital, arresting and dynamic bit of tump I've done up to date.
Burr so won the hearts of both hostess and sheriff that, instead of arresting him, the officer proposed to guide the escaping criminal on his way the next morning.
Nicolas Thomas Bremontier, towards the end of the 18th century, devised the plan of arrestingthis scourge by planting the dunes with maritime pines.
On being interrogated the Queen declared that these five and twenty louis had been lent to her by my sister; this formed a pretence for arresting her and me, and led to her death.
Already did some of his remarks upon the necessity of arresting the progress of the democrats circulate in society.
At the Smallpox Hospital, where chlorine was tried, with the view of arresting the progress of erysipelas, "all offensive smell was removed, but the power of communicating the disease remained behind.
Iodine and the iodides appear to be the only substances capable of curing or even arresting the progress of this disease.
Charcoal, which is so very generally employed as a dentifrice, acts partly mechanically and partly by its chemical property of destroying foul smells and arresting putrefaction.
From any of the preceding formulae by arresting the evaporation when the fluid has acquired the consistence of a thin syrup, and adding to each pint, when cold, rectified spirit, 4 fl.
Fumigations of nitrous acid were employed by Ramon da Luna, and it is asserted that no agent was so effectual in arresting the spread of the disease.
Coachman, witnesses, and arresting officer, to say nothing of horse, carriage, and sores were on hand when court opened next morning.
But the glance they throw the innocent arresting officer as they pass out on their way to the barb-wire enclosure on the outskirts of the Zone capital tells another story.
And they care even more, and desire us to care even more, about their startling and arresting dogmas than about their startling and arresting art.
The one reallyarresting exception is Olive Schreiner, and she is quite as certainly an exception that proves the rule.
One arresting feature of the Chiliastic passages that have come down to us, is their uniformity.
VII The next day moved toward its end without arresting incident.
The best public means of arresting fires is a very wide question, as the only limit to the means is the expense.
Ample corroboration of this statement may be obtained by arresting the above-mentioned Edmond Dantes, who either carries the letter for Paris about with him, or has it at his father's abode.
Proof of this crime will be found on arresting him, for the letter will be found upon him, or at his father's, or in his cabin on board the Pharaon.
The burden of it was arresting municipal development.
But should they find him they will be obliged to take legal steps in arresting him before they can proceed.
I would have nothing to do with the contemptible work ofarresting fugitives.
It will be seen that, without arresting the requisitions which will be made by the War and Navy Departments for the months of March, April, and May, there will be an unprovided-for deficit of upward of three millions.
Carnaby took a step; Redgrave laid anarresting hand upon him.
There sounded from somewhere in the house a shrill little cry, arresting his thought, and controverting it without a syllable.
Sembat endeavoured to pacify his enemy by a payment of money, which the emir swallowed without arresting his advance.
He is no very arresting figure; and therefore you, reader, are already considering a skip to chapter nine.
Astonished as Mac was, disappointed and relieved all at once, there was something arresting in the appeal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arresting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
