balminess
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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 A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest
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 W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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