balmy
adjective
mild and refreshing; soft; soothing.
balmily
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a word derived from
balmy.
Example Sentences
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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 Henry James
Poppa looked guardedly round at me, but by this time I was asleep in my camp chair, the air was so balmily cool after our hot rattle to Como.
From A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') by Sara Jeannette Duncan
McKinley, it was said, could say no to three different seekers for the same office so balmily that each of them went away convinced that he was the successful applicant.
From Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer
There's no one in talk with whom," she balmily continued, "I find myself half so often suddenly moved to pull up short.
From The Awkward Age by Henry James
The sun shone as balmily soft as ever.
From The Riverman by Stewart Edward White
