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 love of nature, a new-born flower, blooms in my heart, and diffuses a sweet balminess unknown before.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee

The weather was warm, yet of a delightful balminess.

From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by Huneker, James