It--well, read it yourself, and see if you, too, do not find food for frantic conjecture, for tantalizing doubts, and for a great hope.
Well, I sat there all night, listening to that tantalizing clicking, now and then moving the sending-key just to let the other end know that the instrument had been discovered.
This done, I immediately sent for my Grandson; for, to confess the truth, I felt that all that I had seen and heard was in some strange way slipping away from me, like the image of a half-grasped,
tantalizing dream, and I longed to essay my skill in making a first disciple.
Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in
tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.
Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre found a kind of
tantalizing satisfaction.
Where before I had had but a mild craving for food and drink, I now actually suffered for want of it, and all because of the tantalizing sight that I had had of food almost within my grasp.
The wall of my prison was of clearest glass--behind the glass were the tantalizing viands.
An occasional dinner at Ruth's helped to keep strength in his body, though he found it tantalizing enough to refuse further helping when his appetite was raging at sight of so much food spread before it.
He was afflicted always with a gnawing restlessness, more tantalizing than in the old days before he possessed her love; for now that he did possess her love, the possession of her was far away as ever.
There was a
tantalizing suggestion always present in his mind that something was eluding him--that he should know many things which he did not know.
Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and
tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl, as if the child, in her lonely ramble through the forest, had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together, and was now vainly seeking to return to it.
"O, Tessy!" he went on, "I CANNOT think why you are so
tantalizing. Why do you disappoint me so?