Tantalus

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Julian went to the tantalus on the sideboard and poured himself a brandy to steady his nerves. ❋ Mosse, Kate (2007)

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. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Visually quartering the room, he located the tantalus, crossed to it, poured a large measure of brandy into a crystal glass. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)

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. ❋ Marshall Mather (N/A)

On the table, beside the lamp, was a tantalus and a glass, and a half empty syphon. ❋ G. Sidney Paternoster (N/A)

Carstairs made a gesture towards the tantalus on the table. ❋ Kathlyn Rhodes (N/A)

"Pass the tantalus, Murray," the Tenant said, and the youngest of the four handed the corncob-corked bottle to the eldest. ❋ H. Beam Piper (1934)

From a tantalus on the table he poured out a few drops of brandy, and forced her to drink them. ❋ Agatha Christie (1933)

My man had cleared dinner by a quarter past eight, and I told him to give me the siphon and tantalus; and sent him downstairs. ❋ Dorothy Leigh (1923)

And she didn't let herself go cheap -- I used to get the key of the tantalus and cart a whole decanter of whisky to bed to get over it. ❋ M. Leonora Eyles (1924)

My man had cleared dinner by a quarter past eight, and I told him to give me the syphon and tantalus; and sent him downstairs. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (1923)

Cakes and ale, however, flanked by a dish of sandwiches and a tantalus, made a collation at once independent of service and adaptable to every appetite. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)

Tom rode back to his quarters turning over the taste of brandy in his mouth -- he had made a martial raid on Samson's tantalus -- and all aglow with good humor. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1921)

A tantalus stand with siphons and glasses, an assortment of different colored liqueurs in handsome cut-glass carafes and some plates of sandwiches stood on a side-table. ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)