balminess

Example Sentences

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Then, slamming a trapdoor over them, she restores Paris to happy sanity, herself returns to contented balminess.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him.

From "1984" by George Orwell

A great soothing suspiration of peace seemed to swell from it all to lap the traveler like the moist balminess of a semi-tropical sea.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

There was a deceptive balminess in the air that seemed merely to overlay a penetrating chilliness.

From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham