tantalization

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Colleges with no V12 windfall, with or without an A-12 tantalization, had the choice of supporting teams of 4-Fs and 17-year-olds or giving up.

From Time Magazine Archive

‘I have faced tantalization these twenty years with a temper as mild as milk!’ said Japheth; ‘but such things as this don’t come short of devilry!’

From Wessex Tales by Hardy, Thomas

It is not that Nature can become ever less lovely to your sight; but that the tantalization of her dangerous beauty, which you may enjoy only at a safe distance, exasperates at last.

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

The main secret of Bulwer then reveals itself, like that of flirtation, to reside in the art of tantalization.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

To live for a time among them would be a delight; to glance at them for a moment was tantalization.

From An American Girl Abroad by Trafton, Adeline