Example Sentences

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He stepped out on Fifth Avenue; and though a warm June wind blew balmily up from Washington Square, his heart was chill within him.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander

There is an old saying in Rajput that woman and the four winds were born at the same time, of the same mother: blew hot, blew cold, balmily, or tempestuously, from all points at once.

From The Adventures of Kathlyn by MacGrath, Harold

The sun shone as balmily soft as ever.

From The Riverman by White, Stewart Edward

The sun shone warm and bright; the chinook blew balmily and alluringly; the trail stretched before us dry and level.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

We've had of late a good lot of wondrous, sunny, balmy days—to-day is splendid—in which I have kept saying to myself "What a climate—dear old much-abused thing—after all!" and feeling quite balmily and baskingly southern.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry