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
Snow is very rare, and usually the night frost is dispelled in a few hours by the warmth of the sun, and the general balminess of the air.
From Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles by Suffling, Ernest R. (Ernest Richard)
It seemed to him a cherub was fluttering its wings against his cheek, diffusing a peace and balminess that no language could describe.
From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee
