balminess
Example Sentences
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Somewhere in Antarctica's forbidding interior, they speculated, there may be a hidden valley heated to tropical balminess by volcanic energy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, slamming a trapdoor over them, she restores Paris to happy sanity, herself returns to contented balminess.
From Time Magazine Archive
But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him.
From "1984" by George Orwell
There was a deceptive balminess in the air that seemed merely to overlay a penetrating chilliness.
From Turn About Eleanor by F. Graham Cootes
The artisan's receding gait Has brushed the chips away, Where innocence shall recreate, Or like the flowers grow, and wait The balminess of May.
From Poems Vol. IV by Hattie Howard
