balminess
- a word derived from balmy.
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
Jean was on the porch enjoying the bracing balminess of a bright October afternoon when I rode up, and ran with glad cry to meet me.
From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Caldwell, Willie Walker
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)
