How To Use Tantalus In A Sentence
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But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton, and his fifteen hundred pounds had exhausted his emergency fund and left him stranded at the Tantalus point where each day he saw the fresh-whipsawed boats departing for Dawson.
THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN
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For Tantalus the Greek designer, Dionysius Fotopoulis, uses a smoked glass backdrop, creating the illusion of greater space and a sense of the play being a reflection of all our lives.
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Green monkeys are also called vervets, tantalus, sabeus, and grivet monkeys.
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The most common primate recorded by Barber et al. was baboon Papio anubis, with lower numbers of patas and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus patas and C. tantalus), and low numbers of black and white colobus monkeys Colobus guereza in the dry forest.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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Visually quartering the room, he located the tantalus, crossed to it, poured a large measure of brandy into a crystal glass.
The Perfect Lover
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The Dumbocrats should run campaign adds featuring Pat Boone's Fruit-of-the-Loom commercials from the '70's and ask rhetorically, who is the "treat"? tantalus wrote on November 5, 2007 6: 41 AM:
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The first lockable Tantalus appeared around the mid 19th Century and was first seen in England around 1870.
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Many words come from Greek roots, but the roots for "tantalize" run all the way to Greek myth about a misbehaving son of Zeus named Tantalus.
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Julian went to the tantalus on the sideboard and poured himself a brandy to steady his nerves.
Sepulchre
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On the table, beside the lamp, was a tantalus and a glass, and a half empty syphon.
The Motor Pirate
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The groaning trees, tossed by the tempest, flung off showers of half-frozen flakes, that falling on her flaming cheeks failed to cool the fever of her suspense, while the yielding snow beneath her feet became a tantalus path, delaying her advance, and seeming to make more distant her suffering child.
Lancashire Idylls (1898)
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Mythological characters that can be found on the periodic table include Tantalus (Tantalum, Ta) and his daughter Niobe (Niobium, Nb), and Promethius (Promethium, Pm).
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There was a tantalus and glasses on the top of a bureau, in the alcove to the left of the fireplace.
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So he died and left behind him the ancient sceptre of Tantalus, and Aegisthus reigns in his stead, with the daughter of Tyndareus, Agamemnon's queen, to wife.
Electra
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He towed her across the room, paused beside his desk to thrust the signal flags into a drawer, then towed her farther — to the tantalus.
A Lady of His Own
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A tantalus containing three kinds of spirit, all of a liqueur excellence, stood always on this table of luxury; but the fanciful have asserted that the whisky, brandy, and rum seemed always to stand at the same level.
The Complete Father Brown
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Carstairs made a gesture towards the tantalus on the table.
Afterwards
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At his Street sale on the Tuesday, there is a pair of late 19th century baluster-shaped glass decanters with diamond-cut decoration (estimate 80 to 100) and two late Victorian oak tantalus, each with a very affordable estimate of 100 to 150.
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Tantalus, ut famast, cassa formidine torpens; sed magis in uita diuum metus urget inanis mortalis casumque timent quem cuique ferat fors; nec Tityon uolucres ineunt Acherunte iacentem nec quod sub magno scrutentur pectore quicquam55 perpetuam aetatem possunt reperire profecto; quamlibet immani proiectu corporis exstet, qui non sola nouem dispessis iugera membris obtineat, sed qui terrai totius orbem, non tamen aeternum poterit perferre dolorem60 nec praebere cibum proprio de corpore semper; sed Tityos nobis non est in amore iacentem quem luctus lacerant: at quem exest anxius angor aut alia quauis scindunt cuppedine curae.
The Powers of Hell
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This tantalus is decorated with exquisitely carved exterior: on the top is a vignette comprised of three birds; a chick and the chick's parents.
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More affordable are Victorian decanters and a tantalus, a lockable case usually made to hold three cut-glass decanters.
