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Updated: June 3, 2025
The oars dipped again, and the boat went on slowly eastward toward the distant coast, as the terrible sense of depression and exhaustion increased with Mark, mingled with a strange desire to scoop up some of the clear, glittering, tantalising water, and drink what he knew would be so horribly salt and bitter that his sufferings would be increased.
We grant that to that unfortunate class of society there may be something very irritating, tantalising, and provoking, in being compelled to witness those gentle endearments and chaste interchanges which to loving couples are quite the ordinary business of life.
The dreary wilderness stretches before us, monotonous, treeless, in some parts bearing a scanty vegetation which flourishes in early spring and dies before fierce summer heats, but for the most part utterly desolate, the sand blinding the eyes, the ground cracked and gaping as if athirst for the rain that will not fall; over it the tantalising mirage dancing in mockery, and amid the hot sand the yelp of the jackals.
Ivan was not thinking of this; but of the beautiful bird which was flitting about among the trees still keeping out of the range of his gun. He was in a bent attitude, crouching along under the bank which he was using as a cover, to enable him to approach the tantalising game. All at once, a singular noise fell upon his ear.
Beyond this meagre and conflicting and altogether tantalising information, her knowledge of the present position of affairs did not go.
Blithers in that city have received instructions from him to send engineers to Edelweiss for the purpose of estimating the cost of remodelling and rebuilding the castle, in other words to restore it to its condition prior to the Marlanx rebellion fifteen years ago." There was a tantalising smile on the Baron's face as he watched the changing expressions in that of his Prince.
Otherwise he showed little interest and felt no desire to lift the tantalising veil; neither did he turn his head, else might he have seen the ebony face of the Ethiopian eunuch peering from between a mass of flowers, from which point of vantage he watched the scene with intent to report thereon to his black twin-brother.
Hilary reached one arm down and Adela Norland reached one arm up, but when they had strained to the utmost a good six feet intervened between Hilary's hand and the slice of bread. "Oh, I say, how tantalising!" he cried, giving a shake at the bars. "Make haste, Addy, and do something. Isn't there a ladder?" "No," she said, shaking her head. "I'll get a chair."
Over the flat marshes to Pevensey, marshes then covered at high tide leaving on the left the high lands of Herstmonceux, where the father of "Roaring Ralph" of that ilk still resided, lord paramount. The castle was hidden in the trees. The church stood bravely out, and its bells were ringing a wedding peal in the ears of the parting knight. How tantalising!
"I don't even know for myself," she said. "So why shouldn't we start to find out together?" he asked. It was her tantalising habit to ignore all such tentatives. "One can't help the feeling that one is in the world for something more than oneself," she said.... Section 8 Soon Mr. Direck could measure the time that was left to him at the Dower House no longer by days but by hours.
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