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

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

From Andrew the Glad by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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

This she knew; and this tantalization of her fate she keenly felt.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret