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

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

That, she could imagine, would be a tantalization from which a sensitive woman might well wish to escape.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

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

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.

From Mushrooms on the Moor by Boreham, Frank