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 Cootes, F. Graham

The pomp and glory of October were ushered in by days of such surpassing balminess and brightness that it was felt to be a sin to remain indoors.

From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson