Noun : the balsam of understanding and appreciation. From Dictionary.com.
While the balsamy breath of the hemlocks and pines by the river. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
The result will be a supper that cannot be found in the finest of hotels, especially if your appetite is sauced by a good hike and the fragrant balsamy air of the great forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers] Reference
It was pretty country, even in the downpour, when white mists parted and fir-crowned heights looked out for a moment, or we slid down into a deep glen with mossy boulders, lichen-covered stumps, ferny carpet, and damp, balsamy smell of pyramidal cryptomeria, and. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
Behind the station the balsamy copse of young firs was frost-misted. From Wordnik.com. [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference
The red light between the boughs made brilliant carpet patterns on the thick pine needles and the smell was balsamy and sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
Beyond that there was a lane between ranks of young, balsamy, white-misted firs and then an open pasture field, sere and crispy. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908] Reference
It was pleasant now to sit on his own doorstep and smell the delicate perfume of the roses and the balsamy odors from the woods behind. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Man's Rock] Reference
The valley and the sentinel peaks that stood guard over it, the lowlands duskily green and full of balsamy odors from the forest, was still a goodly place to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Places] Reference
It was a pretty road, running along between snug farmsteads, with now and again a bit of balsamy fir wood to drive through or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Anne of Green Gables] Reference
It was lonely, stately, dark, solemn; its huge cryptomeria, straight as masts, sent their tall spires far aloft in search of light; the ferns, which love damp and shady places, were the only undergrowth; the trees flung their balsamy, aromatic scent liberally upon the air, and, in the unlighted depths of many a ravine and hollow, clear bright torrents leapt and tumbled, drowning with their thundering bass the musical treble of the lighter streams. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
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