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

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

From Turn About Eleanor by Cootes, F. Graham

Meanwhile, Julian had left the castle grounds and walked nervously through the forest, enjoying the velvety softness of the grass and the balminess of the air.

From Three short works The Dance of Death, the Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller, a Simple Soul. by Flaubert, Gustave