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 air is full of scent, a kind of spicy smell mingled with a touch of wood-smoke, and there is a balminess in it that we have never felt till now.
From Round the Wonderful World by Forrest, A. S. (Archibald Stevenson)
The balminess of the air, which is at once warm and invigorating and bracing, without being severe, brings about a natural feeling of rest.
