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 seemed to him a cherub was fluttering its wings against his cheek, diffusing a peace and balminess that no language could describe.

From Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel by Hentz, Caroline Lee

The morning air has a positive balminess in it.

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Douglas, Amanda Minnie