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

The warm wind, tempered by approaching night to a grateful balminess, stirred the cloth between his fingers.

From Lahoma by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)

Everything seemed frosty and pinched, just as the cutting air did after the warm balminess of California.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack