balmily
- a word derived from balmy.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Thayer, William Roscoe
But the ingenuities of hospitality which the Aspreys—earnest and accomplished millionaires—lavished upon their guests made one, she owned, balmily comfortable.
From Tante by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas
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)
—And this he did, for their departing prayer Fell balmily upon his filial heart, As when the dying Jacob, blessed his race And worshipp'd, leaning on his patriarch-staff.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
