tantalization
Americannoun
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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
This Mr. Dudley was an early victim of the patent laws, which, to this day, have proved to be for the benefit of lawyers and officials, and the tantalization of true inventors and discoverers.
From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel
Here, at length, after sufficient tantalization by its means, Marlboro' venturously intruded himself every day.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 by Various
This she knew; and this tantalization of her fate she keenly felt.
From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret
There are few things more difficult to bear than what Scotch people so expressively term “tig-tire,” or excessive tantalization.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Stables, Gordon
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