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

The balminess of the night was like a spell.

From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

The whole city lay bathed in sunshine that brought with it the balminess of real springtime for which they waited so long in the North.

From Keineth by Abbott, Jane