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

This gave them a little peep into the heavens, but was really only a tantalization.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists by Hubbard, Elbert

The sand hills were a constant tantalization; she loved them better than anything near Moonstone, and yet she could so seldom get to them.

From The Song of the Lark by Cather, Willa Sibert

What barbarous tantalization to compel them to thirst in the midst of the waters of abundance!

From Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by Wentworth, William Charles

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

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