"Tantalise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the most sympathetic and attentive of listeners, he has not remembered more than one good story, and that has now been quoted in all the papers; we mean Lord Beaconsfield story is said to be unprintable; then why tantalise Lord Rosslyn, on account of the possible effect of his language on the pack, compensated by the Commissionership of the Kirk of Scotland. The other Beaconsfield story is said to be unprintable, then why tantalise ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Nov 21, 1917 • Various
... church, just like the crows, 'cause there They build themselves a nest; From too much poetry, which shines With gold in nothing but its lines, Free, O you Powers! my breast; And from astronomy, which in the skies Finds fish and bulls, yet doth but tantalise. ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... aloud within him:—This will hurt more than anything that has gone before. It will recall and remind and suggest and tantalise, and in the end drive ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... in his way, however, seemed to increase as circumstances combined to fret and tantalise ...
— Banked Fires • E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
... unhappy frame of body as of mind he strays on along the street. There is no lack of food before his eyes, almost within reach of his hand; but only to tantalise, and still further whet the edge of his appetite. Eating-houses are open all around him; and under their blazing gas-jets he can see steaming dishes, and savoury joints, in the act of being set upon tables surrounded by guests seeming ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid |
