1887 A. Seth ii. 74 [T. H.] Green..constantly assumes a stream of sensations as the material upon which the pause-giving and rationally constitutive activity of thought is exercised.
1963 9 Nov. 577/1 Papers with..pause-giving titles.
2003 (Nexis) 29 Mar. 42 The hijinks on the Highlands revolves around some rather pause-giving antics.