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tantalus

tan tuh luhs

  • n  (Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it

  • Its two officers bear strictly Holmesian titles: President Christopher Morley is Gasogene--Tantalus (Holmes kept his whiskey in a tantalus, his soda water in a gasogene .
  • But even in the days when the needle lay beside the gasogene and tantalus, Holmes did not stoop to call for it in such undignified terms.
  • He was raised comfortably in London, great-grandson of a Dutch-descended Englishman who grew rich on inventions such as the tantalus, a contrivance to keep Victorian housemaids out .
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