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

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

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

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

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