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

Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, have been mistaken for malevolence.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

"How long are you going to be at home?" he asked—another dastardly tantalization.

From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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

Like many excellent people, he seemed possessed with a spirit of tantalization, which might easily, at a casual glance, be mistaken for malevolence.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert