When the telephone rang its always mysterious call, she went to it with a tense Arrestation of her nerves expectant of his voice, fearing-hoping.
"The Salamander"
Owen Johnson
Similar Arrestation of the functions of the roots may be brought about by removing the oxygen from the soil around the root-hairs, and replacing it by carbon-dioxide, or the vapour of chloroform.
"Disease in Plants"
H. Marshall Ward
The operation of debasing a coinage-of lowering it, that is, so far and so arbitrarily as to remove it at once from the action of natural law of prices ruling around-means an Arrestation of natural economic processes and laws, and the events which follow thereupon stand apart from such laws and ought to be treated as so separate.
"The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896"
William Arthur Shaw