tantalization

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To live for a time among them would be a delight; to glance at them for a moment was tantalization.

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There are few things more difficult to bear than what Scotch people so expressively term “tig-tire,” or excessive tantalization.

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It must not be so crushing as to be a positive humiliation, nor must it be by so fine a margin as to constitute itself a tantalization.

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Wonderment as to the next move partook less of deep anxiety than of the tantalization of guessing at a riddle with the answer always just eluding you.

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

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