She dipped a cloth in the warm balsam-scented water, and gently wiped first his face and then his lax hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

Broken in health, he had turned wearily from the rush and clamor of the city to the clear, balsam-scented air of the woods, where he was fast gaining a health and vigor that he had not believed possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Then the balsam-scented air, and the dew-laden bushes along the chattering little stream as it flows over a chaos of broken granite or works itself into a boiling froth, only to jump headlong into a quiet green pool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Roost] Reference

Across that divine balsam-scented stillness came the deep imperative notes of a bell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Oxen] Reference

Even groping through a balsam-scented darkness with one hand clasping the thrilly fingers of a lovely young girl, this distaste did not altogether leave him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference

All three breathless, all three excited, all three reproachful, -- they swept into the warm, balsam-scented Rattle-Pane House with a gust of frost, a threat of disaster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs] Reference

Keith -- "Johnny" they used to call him up and down the few balsam-scented streets -- his father's right-hand man mentally but a little off feed, as his chum, Reddy McTabb, used to say, when it came to the matter of muscle and brawn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The River's End] Reference

And while Youth and its Laughter -- a chaos of color and shrill crescendos -- was surging back and forth across the flower-wreathed piazzas, and violins were wheedling, and Japanese lanterns drunk with candle light were bobbing gaily in the balsam-scented breeze, little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Eve Edgarton] Reference

In Limbo, where I've so often spent the holidays, I sat down last year in front of my computer on the night before the night before Christmas and tried to soothe my balsam-scented loneliness by reaching out to my newfound social network ( "social networks" being what we have now in place of "friends and families").    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The talk seemed already to have taken us away from all pleasure in the prospect; I said, as we found our way through the rich, balsam-scented twilight of the woods, where one joy-haunted thrush was still singing: "You know that in America the law is careful not to meddle with a man's private affairs, and we don't attempt to legislate personal virtue.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Traveler from Altruria: Romance] Reference

Yet scented deep in his curved, empty, balsam-scented fingers lurked -- somehow -- somewhere -- the dregs of a wonderful dream: Boyhood, with the hot, sweet flutter of summer woods, and the pillowing warmth of the soft, sunbaked earth, and the crackle of a twig, and the call of a bird, and the drone of a bee, and the great blue, blue mystery of the sky glinting down through a green-latticed canopy overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Molly Make-Believe] Reference