"You're hoping a 'gator catches me, aren't you?" she called from the veranda, and as she went down the steps her rippling laughter drifted
tantalizingly back through the wide doorway.
Though his progress seemed
tantalizingly slow to the ape-man whose idea of speed had been gained by such standards as the lesser apes attain, he made, as a matter of fact, almost as rapid progress as the drifting canoe that bore Rokoff on ahead of him, so that he came to the bay and within sight of the ocean just after darkness had fallen upon the same day that Jane Clayton and the Russian ended their flights from the interior.
He even hung by one hand,
tantalizingly just beyond reach, and mocked them as they gnashed their tusks with impotent rage.
But while I looked at him his former aspect, so subtly inhuman, so
tantalizingly familiar, crept back into his big eyes, repellant and attractive.
Tantalizingly the placing of his familiar features persisted in eluding her.
There was a slightly puzzled expression on her face--there was something
tantalizingly familiar about that smile of his.
A band of caribou passed by, twenty and odd animals,
tantalizingly within rifle range.
A colorful novel of dreams
tantalizingly out-of-reach pervading a neighborhood, and the willingness to risk all in hope of fantastic payoff, Gods of the Andes comes alive with vibrant impressions, boisterous dialogue, and the urgency of desperate hope that threatens when one's life is barely a step away from being penniless on the streets.
At one point, Abd-Allah
tantalizingly informs us that Webb's booklet Islam and America sets forth the author's views on "a number of controversial topics like slavery, concubinage, and jihad," [201] but no elaboration follows.
As technologies for exploring space become increasingly sophisticated, answers to the deepest questions about the nature of the universe lie
tantalizingly close.
A
tantalizingly mysterious collection, especially recommended for fans of gaslight horror and occult tales by more widely publicized authors such as H.P.