tantalizin

She'd left the door open, and the smell of dinner that blew through it was tantalizin '.

Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"You're jest a tantalizin '' em!" panted the farmer.

Frank Merriwell's Reward Burt L. Standish 1905

"'S my move!" says Wes, 'thout seemin' to notice the feller's tantalizin 'words whatsomever.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

Th 'ain't anything much mo' tantalizin 'to a person than uncertainty in sech matters.

Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

"Weel, the wife couldna 'stand being slighted like thet, an' Granger's wife had been tantalizin 'her too, you ken hoo women rave when they are slighted.

The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner James C. Welsh

The flavor of that luncheon we had last time I was here has been hangin '' round the edges of my mouth and tantalizin 'my memory ever since. "

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"I hev lived a consider'ble time in this tantalizin 'world, an' ez yit I dunno ez I hev hed any need o 'Sol ter pertect

The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886