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Definition of Tantalises
1. tantalise [v] - See also: tantalise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantalises
Literary usage of Tantalises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott (1900)
"These lines are part of an unpublished poem by Coleridge, whose Muse so often
tantalises with fragments which indicate her powers, while the manner in which ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"Adolescence is treated from the standpoints of hygiene and education: Children's
Games, Infancy, In/ant, are not psychological articles; Play tantalises us ..."
3. The English Historical Review by JSTOR (Organization), Oxford Journals (Oxford University Press), Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1909)
"THIS handsome volume consists entirely of prolegomena, and tantalises the reader
by constant references to the test of the cartularies, for which we have ..."
4. Réflexions sur l'espèce en histoire naturelle, 1842 by Hans Falkenhagen, Ronald Percy Bell, Norman Holt Hartshorne, Alan Stuart, Eric John Holmyard, Alexander Moritzi, Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"Diplomatic correspondence of this kind is valuable, from its absolutely contemporary
character, but it often tantalises us by telling us the beginning and ..."
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