Balminess

Everything seemed frosty and pinched, just as the cutting air did after the warm balminess of California. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Less true is that the balminess of late May was setting me up for failure. ❋ Katherine Wheelock (2011)

But, when the weather kicked it up to something like balminess last week I craved raw, leafy greens. ❋ Sarah Lenz (2009)

"I put saffron in my milk every morning," says Mr. Serrano, 61 years old, speaking in late September, when the hot La Mancha sun and the cool fall winds combined for a brief period of balminess. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)

The balminess of yesterday was a tonic to this winter weary soul. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But this evening as he came out of the Ministry the balminess of the April air had tempted him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In my case I will not miss mosquitos the size of my head, and the general balminess that surrounds me. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It stirred my snowy hair and made me shiver despite the balminess of the violet evening. ❋ Mark Gatiss (2008)

When the weather shows even the slightest hint of balminess, diners come in as early as 5 p.m. for the restaurant's sunny ambiance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Nice is a very pretty town, tolerably clean, with very high houses, beautiful mountains, and a perfect sea, and balminess in the air. ❋ Unknown (2006)

She smiled, grateful, even in the balminess of the night, for the caress of heat — his heat — lingering in the silk lining. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)

Start praying now for unseasonal balminess, will you? ❋ Gwenda (2002)