Adjective, : balmy weather. ,balmy leaves. ,balmy plants; a balmy shrub. From Dictionary.com.
"Hush!" she whispered most gently, glancing toward her father, now balmily sleeping. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
Poppa looked guardedly round at me, but by this time I was asleep in my camp chair, the air was so balmily cool after our hot rattle to Como. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
And then in the morning the air would be more balmily insulting than ever. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
But the water was calm, the sky clear, and the wind blew balmily; so I waited for what should happen. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.] Reference
The sun shone warm and bright; the chinook blew balmily and alluringly; the trail stretched before us dry and level. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
There's no one in talk with whom, "she balmily continued," I find myself half so often suddenly moved to pull up short. From Wordnik.com. [The Awkward Age] Reference
"Unless he thought you would find it out by intuition," Kathryn suggested balmily, as she leaned back in her chair and smoothed her dressing gown. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography]
A general air of joyful mystery and spiritual endeavour blew balmily round them all, and without any doubt the exercises and the deep breathing were extremely good for them. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Lucia] Reference
Ildegerte, on whose bruised and wounded heart the gentle courtesies of strangers fell softly and balmily, silent, patient, and mournful, came slowly back to life and health. From Wordnik.com. [The Planter's Northern Bride] Reference
I should have been, in that case, at the present writing, in a fidget too fierce for endurance, whereas I now can prattle to you quite balmily; for which you are all, no doubt, deeply grateful. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson] Reference
As the evening came on the weather steadily cleared; -- and presently a pure, calm, dark-blue expanse of ether stretched balmily across the whole width of the waves, with the evening star -- the Star of Love -- glimmering faintly aloft like a delicate jewel hanging on the very heart of the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
It was such motherly looking country, and yet young with springtime, and of a breath that came balmily in at the open car-windows; and the trees stood about in the meadows near the hedge-rows as if they knew what a good thing it was to be meadow-trees in England, where not being much good for fuel or lumber they could stand for ages and ages, and shelter the sheep and cattle without danger of the axe. From Wordnik.com. [London Films] Reference
Come soft slumber, balmily!. From Wordnik.com. [In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World] Reference
Fell balmily upon his filial heart. From Wordnik.com. [Man of Uz, and Other Poems] Reference
And balmily sighs the meadow-sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry] Reference
Come, soft slumber, balmily!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Coleridge] Reference
"Lalage, of course, smiled balmily.". From Wordnik.com. [Lalage's Lovers] Reference
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