Three times had fortune Tantalized me by placing rich gifts almost within my reach and then snatching them from my outstretched hand.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
He had not been able to speak to Mary, though for a moment he had come near enough to be Tantalized by a wonderful possibility of understanding.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Often and often we are teased and Tantalized and mocked by that old question: Oh!
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson