tantalisation

Rose had no idea of tantalisation, or she would have held him a while in doubt.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

She continued to exercise her impish arts of tantalisation and her wiles of fascination on Don Carlos during the remainder of her stay at

Bandit Love Juanita Savage

But now, and all at once, what must obtrude upon these gloomy thoughts but a vision of ham and eggs, a tantalisation that would not be banished.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

These ran chiefly towards a sobriety of behaviour which was not natural to her, and which seemed to me assumed for my special benefit and tantalisation, and I was expecting every minute to see the sober cloak cast aside and the laughing Carette of earlier days dance out into the sunshine of our old camaraderie.

Carette of Sark John Oxenham 1896

Cudjo, would set about finding the bee-tree -- for up to this time he had kept the secret to himself, to the great tantalisation of Harry, whose impatience had now reached its maximum of endurance.

The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850