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
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
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
‘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
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
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