tantalizing

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It is important to turn them from these in order to tranquilize and regulate their course by damming them up and canalizing them.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Forel, Auguste

Notwithstanding the work already done, such as canalizing and regulating the rivers, the erection of dams, &c., the problems of preventing inundations, and of reclaiming the marshes, have not yet been satisfactorily solved.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various

He had swum with the tide of public sentiment in cardinal matters, instead of stemming or canalizing and guiding it.

From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph

Improvements now under way in clearing and canalizing these rivers will add about five hundred miles of additional water-way.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

It must be remembered that before the canalizing of the Thames the influence of the tide was perceptible at least as high as Staines, where was also a crossing-place of immemorial antiquity.

From Early Britain—Roman Britain by Conybeare, Edward