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  • Tantalising glimpses of Grey Crag, Thornthwaite Crag, Threshthwaite Mouth, Raven Crag and Cauldale Moor all have their glorious moments until directly in front of you soars Hartsop Dodd itself, a peak of such perfection that it captivates hearts.

    Country diary: Lake District 2011

  • Tantalising but a crazy number so obviously planted by a jealous rival ….

    Anne Sebba – author of “American Jennie” | Edwardian Promenade 2008

  • It was called Tantalising Textiles and was put on by the Second Turning Textile Group, a midlands group of textile artists who work in a variety of media.

    Back and ready to upload tons of pics - tomorrow. katelnorth 2007

  • Savitri Era: Tantalising hint of knowledge skip to main

    Tantalising hint of knowledge Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • It was called Tantalising Textiles and was put on by the Second Turning Textile Group, a midlands group of textile artists who work in a variety of media.

    Archive 2007-06-01 katelnorth 2007

  • Tantalising glimpses of villages with small houses bordering the road, signposts which she never quite managed to read as they tore past, and now and then the lights of villas standing back from the road.

    Heidelberg Wedding Neels, Betty 1984

  • "Tantalising open eyes, without a blush in them, and a face like the bust of Clytie."

    When the Birds Begin to Sing Harold Piffard

  • Tantalising to have all the duels and fighting done during the _entr'actes.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 29, 1892 Various

  • Tantalising to Tom Taylor, who has to dine elsewhere; and Thackeray leaves early, to go to an 'episcopal tea-fight,' as he tells us -- a jump 'from lively to severe,' to

    The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

  • Tantalising, truly, considering that this was the sort of thing that it was destined to supersede: –

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

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