The wounded-hero role is awfully taking with the girls, you know," consoled Rufus, divining the tantalising effect of this stage setting upon his handicapped brother.
Rufus could no longer endure his brother's tantalising eloquence.
Of the love of Bach we have only that tantalising allusion to the "stranger maiden.
This satanic idea was executed with the design of tantalising the sufferers in their dying hours, with the sight of that element the want of which would soon cause them the most acute anguish.
To do this, Harry wanted to use the water-bowl the sheik had left for the purpose of tantalising his victims with the sight of its contents.
I asked, unable to any longer bear their tantalising conversation, so anxious was I to ascertain the latest development of this conspiracy against our country.
Other dances, performed principally by lesser lights of the company and affording only a briefly tantalising glimpse of Magda herself, preceded the chief event of the evening.
But to no shy maiden had Lionel Callon ever said "I love you," with so glowing an ardour as he felt for that most tantalising cheque.
It is tantalising to think that no record of this remarkable performance remains; but, indeed, the same may to some extent be said, and in various degrees, of nearly all the lectures which Coleridge ever delivered.
He looked into her eyes, and saw that they danced with tantalising merriment.
Her attitude was as though she delighted in tantalising him, as if she held knowledge superior to his own.
The whole affair was a complete enigma, rendered the more tantalising by the distance which now separated him from London.
How tantalising it is that we cannot catch a single word she is uttering!
Now and again, indeed, there is a tantalising glimpse of the old Prue, hidden away, as it were, behind the new one.
He says himself that our meetings are so scrappy and patchy that he sometimes thinks they are moretantalising than none.
Mrs. Radcliffe's tantalising delays quicken our curiosity as effectively as the deliberate calm of a raconteur, who, with a view to heightening his artistic effect, pauses to light a pipe at the very climax of his story.
In the novel of mystery a tantalising delay may be singularly effective.
It is not beautiful in situation nor in its own essential harmony, and the fine but tantalising perspectives of its interior may be found again in happier churches.
Well, if you will, you will I suppose, you tantalising child!
Business still continued to present itself in the most tantalising form; it came in gushes and spurts, falling absolutely dead at one moment and then unexpectedly reviving.
His professional career, as I have so often said, had been a series of tantalising half-successes; he was always being baffled by cross winds at the harbour-mouth.
We certainly might," sighed the other, "if only we could discover the solution of this most fascinating yet tantalising problem.
What could it be, except triumph for those enemies, the very names of whom were, with such tantalising persistency, withheld.
Perhaps he was hot upon a solution of the tantalising problem.
To men parched with thirst the stream at the foot of their knoll was but a tantalising aggravation, for to attempt to reach it was certain death.
It was when starting to co-operate in one of those necessary but tantalising expeditions that a number of troopers of the 10th Hussars were drowned in a treacherous ford of the Cabul river near Jellalabad.
It is particularly tantalising and demands the patience of a Job.
He and his party followed the tiger until night put an end to the tantalising pursuit.
It was tantalising to be in its hunting-ground and yet be unable to stay longer and devote myself to its destruction.
It was indeed tantalising to hear the water washing to and fro, and yet not be able to obtain a drop.
With my eyes only a void of blackness, this mystery was bewildering, and rendered the more tantalising by my inability to gaze about me.
How tantalising it was that my poor sightless eyes had been unable to gaze upon her.
They had, no doubt, some connexion with the matter which the trio had so earnestly discussed in that tantalising foreign tongue.
Mine was a tantalising position, unable to return to my own rooms for fear that Winsloe and Parham should discover that I was still alive.
Call me Molly," and she held her new wedding ring before my eyes with a tantalising laugh.
Such is the delight we have in trifling with andtantalising the feelings of others by the exquisite refinements, the studied sleights of love or friendship!
Or did these tantalising contradictions serve to conceal the hidden depths beneath?
It was very tantalising to see the materials for a pretty little fight ready to hand being wasted, and we longed for the smallest hostile act on their part to give us an excuse for one.
To make matters worse, I had the tantalising knowledge that I had mosquito curtains with me, which I had been unable to fix up as the bed was without poles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tantalising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
