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

It had been very hot all the day before, and even now in the early morning there was a balminess in the air.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

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