balminess

It was a crisp, clear morning with a hint of balminess to come.

It had been very hot all the day before, and even now in the early morning there was a balminess in the air.

The intense heat of day was yielding to balminess and it felt like we were in for a warm night ahead.

The balminess of the afternoon was gone.

Nor is the somber history of a local suicide comfortably integrated into the evening's dominant balminess.

The warm wind, tempered by approaching night to a grateful balminess, stirred the cloth between his fingers.

But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him.

The shadows were falling thicker now, the last greenish tinge had left the sky and a slight chill was displacing the balminess of spring.

Scenes of welcome in the springtime air that has a hard time preserving its balminess against the curry vapors of nearby snack bars.

The warm damp balminess of spring encompassed her sweetly with the moist smells of new-plowed earth and all the fresh green things pushing up to the air.

I can imagine him enjoying to the full, but with his usual tranquillity, the balminess of this southern night and the sounds of music softened delightfully by the distance.

In her book "Savoring Spices and Herbs," Julie Sahni says that parsley lends a streak of balminess to everything it touches.

Seduced by the surreal balminess of a summer day in Maine, one tends to overlook the fierceness and fragility of the place, at least if one is not of it.

They were a rarity at this time of the year, but I have seen them occasionally in November, as though the balminess of the weather has deluded them into thinking that the spring had come.

March was a teaser, so spring like and soft and warm and bright, the hills lush and green and dotted with wildflowers, but as soon as your soul relaxed in the balminess, then whoosh!

Natasha was always touring the deck in her running suit or fox-trimmed coat or, on a day with the merest hint of balminess, in a flower-print sundress that made her resemble a large, threatening camellia.

Later, as the day's heat faded into balminess and sunset streaked the sky with glorious shades of pink and gold, Ashley searched all around the house and up and down the drive, but the delivery seemed to have vanished.

There were those who said, taking a cruel pleasure in the grim prediction, that New Year's Eve would be blighted by sudden vast snow, by tidal waves or tornadoes, despite the weather bureau's forecast of continued balminess.

Though it was summer, the day was perfect; low humidity, a cool breeze to fan the brow, a caressing balminess that carried a hint of perfume from gloriously flowering trees, nodding bell blooms of some strange plant below them.

It was one of those evenings when the universal sense of balminess makes all outdoors as homelike and delicious as the cheeriest winter fireside can be, with its enlivenment of ruddy blaze, and its charm of sheltered privacy.

One morning, however, finding that my path lay through a deep wood, I ventured to continue my journey after the sun had risen; the day, which was one of the first of spring, cheered even me by the loveliness of its sunshine and the balminess of the air.

The flavor of nights about the camp-fire and other nights spent in driving sleet, also days when the first flowers come and the wide beds of the desert rivers are swollen with overbrimming floods; the cruel exposure of winter, the thrilling balminess of early spring--all spoke to him again from that motionless figure.