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1. I had travelled - actually flown all the way - and alone - into a balmy welcome I could never have imagined
2. In Felix I sensed the businessman, I could tell he was in the habit of entering his problems in his mental search engine and waiting for a list of alternatives to come up but this time he didn't stand a chance because the wide blue was smiling as wide and as blue as only the wide blue can smile and the balmy air was becalming his twiddling and so he was forced to relax a little more, close his eyes and lay back
3. Towards the end of summer, on a balmy Sunday afternoon with the barbecue embers glowing in a corner of the garden, the fisherman raised a glass of sparkling Chablis to his wife and said, “Darling, what a life
4. One balmy spring Saturday afternoon, with his team leading by five goals to nil, Terry's manager decided to give him a well earned rest twenty minutes before the end of the match
5. Towards the end of summer, on a balmy Sunday afternoon with
6. One balmy spring Saturday afternoon, with his team leading by
7. In unison, the eight pallbearers lifted the casket, moved to the glass doors along the western windows of the Temple, and carried Alex’s body out into the balmy air and setting sun
8. Staggering his way out into the balmy air, he watched as an owl, out searching for food, swooped low over a nearby tussock, reminding him that he hadn't eaten
9. It was a balmy day, with the chance of a March thundershower
10. It was quite a balmy summer night as we climbed through the 8,000 mark
11. The air was balmy and
12. was time to turn it in, so he made his way back to his wooden igloo to lie down on the soft sand cooled by the warm balmy breeze that
13. Derek rose from his chair and slowly paddled out into the balmy
14. balmy nights in a great feather bed
15. With some interesting atmospheric circulation systems, below the sky barrier the entire planet’s surface is maintained at a fairly constant and balmy 31
16. I removed it because the temperature was balmy, almost hot and the furs stifling
17. But summer rain is as fickle as it is ferocious, and all of a sudden it stopped and gave way to a balmy, close night which just made the smell all the worse
18. An hour or so later, Ambrosius was glad to be clear of the balmy jungle and out into the open expanse of the desert that separated him from the Hundred Boughs
19. An unclouded sky above was flawless from all points, the water temperature was a balmy 80 degrees, and the waves were rough enough for surfing
20. He then took Joan to one of the new restaurants in the nearly completed MLC Centre over the road, where they sat outside and enjoyed lunch in the pleasant warmth of a balmy Sydney spring day
21. rose up and drifted through the fence with the soft, balmy breeze
22. He was perspiring slightly as it was rather stuffy in the office on the balmy summer morning
23. It was a balmy afternoon with a stillness in the air that was uncharacteristic of the seaside resort town
24. Those balmy seas and golden beaches were on his mind as he drifted into sleep, but not in his dreams
25. bath tub of balmy water
26. Stan paused, remembrances on his lips, the salt of her on those balmy, Hawaiian nights
27. Monday morning broke bright and sunny, with little wind and temperatures soaring all the way up to a balmy forty degrees
28. This is balmy
29. I did not like to explain this beautifully simple position to Charlotte, yet felt that at all costs I must nip her eloquence in the bud or she would keep me out till it was dark; so I got up, cleared my throat, and said in the balmy tone in which people on platforms begin their orations, '_Geehrte Anwesende_
30. On a balmy June afternoon, Jeff was sitting by
31. It was humidly warm and balmy within the spa chamber, as Arctic winds raged away outside far below zero in temperature
32. On the twenty-eighth (Sunday) a breeze that was almost balmy swept through the rust belt, lifting its fallen leaves high into the skies for days to come
33. It was a balmy night and I noticed
34. constellation and well after midnight with the balmy air rushing into the car's interior
35. Spring weddings are a favorite choice for couples; spring brings to mind sprouting greenery, flowers blooming, balmy breezes and a sun kissed world that chases away the chill of winter
36. Don't know anything about the north, but am altogether salubrious and balmy, hey, my lady?"
37. I was all soul, and (wild as it may appear) felt as if I could have dissolved in the soft balmy gale that kissed my cheek, or have glided below the horizon on
38. indeed! up the ravished in draught: where the sweetly soothing balmy
39. Presently, by a change in the atmosphere, he knew that they were entering a cave; after going on for a few seconds more he heard a crackling, and it seemed to him as though the atmosphere again changed, and became balmy and perfumed
40. He descended, or rather seemed to descend, several steps, inhaling the fresh and balmy air, like that which may be supposed to reign around the grotto of Circe, formed from such perfumes as set the mind a dreaming, and such fires as burn the very senses; and he saw again all he had seen before his sleep, from Sinbad, his singular host, to Ali, the mute attendant; then all seemed to fade away and become confused before his eyes, like the last shadows of the magic lantern before it is extinguished, and he was again in the chamber of statues, lighted only by one of those pale and antique lamps which watch in the dead of the night over the sleep of pleasure
41. Do you know that he's balmy? Look at his head
42. For such a one she yearns this balmy summer eve
43. PRIVATE CARR: (Behind his back) He aint half balmy
44. when somebody dies belonged to them and wouldnt eat any breakfast or speak a word wanting to be petted so I thought I stood out enough for one time and let him he does it all wrong too thinking only of his own pleasure his tongue is too flat or I dont know what he forgets that wethen I dont Ill make him do it again if he doesnt mind himself and lock him down to sleep in the coalcellar with the blackbeetles I wonder was it her Josie off her head with my castoffs hes such a born liar too no hed never have the courage with a married woman thats why he wants me and Boylan though as for her Denis as she calls him that forlornlooking spectacle you couldnt call him a husband yes its some little bitch hes got in with even when I was with him with Milly at the College races that Hornblower with the childs bonnet on the top of his nob let us into by the back way he was throwing his sheeps eyes at those two doing skirt duty up and down I tried to wink at him first no use of course and thats the way his money goes this is the fruits of Mr Paddy Dignam yes they were all in great style at the grand funeral in the paper Boylan brought in if they saw a real officers funeral thatd be something reversed arms muffled drums the poor horse walking behind in black L Boom and Tom Kernan that drunken little barrelly man that bit his tongue off falling down the mens W C drunk in some place or other and Martin Cunningham and the two Dedaluses and Fanny MCoys husband white head of cabbage skinny thing with a turn in her eye trying to sing my songs shed want to be born all over again and her old green dress with the lowneck as she cant attract them any other way like dabbling on a rainy day I see it all now plainly and they call that friendship killing and then burying one another and they all with their wives and families at home more especially Jack Power keeping that barmaid he does of course his wife is always sick or going to be sick or just getting better of it and hes a goodlooking man still though hes getting a bit grey over the ears theyre a nice lot all of them well theyre not going to get my husband again into their clutches if I can help it making fun of him then behind his back I know well when he goes on with his idiotics because he has sense enough not to squander every penny piece he earns down their gullets and looks after his wife and family goodfornothings poor Paddy Dignam all the same Im sorry in a way for him what are his wife and 5 children going to do unless he was insured comical little teetotum always stuck up in some pub corner and her or her son waiting Bill Bailey wont you please come home her widows weeds wont improve her appearance theyre awfully becoming though if youre goodlooking what men wasnt he yes he was at the Glencree dinner and Ben Dollard base barreltone the night he borrowed the swallowtail to sing out of in Holles street squeezed and squashed into them and grinning all over his big Dolly face like a wellwhipped childs botty didnt he look a balmy ballocks sure enough that must have been a spectacle on the stage imagine paying 5/- in the preserved seats for that to see him trotting off in his trowlers and Simon Dedalus too he was always turning up half screwed singing the second verse first the old love is the new was one of his so sweetly sang the maiden on the hawthorn bough he was always on for flirtyfying too when I sang Maritana with him at Freddy Mayers private opera he had a delicious glorious voice Phoebe dearest goodbye sweetheart sweetheart he always sang it not like Bartell Darcy sweet tart goodbye of course he had the gift of the voice so there was no art in it all over you like a warm showerbath O Maritana wildwood flower we sang splendidly though it was a bit
45. Those were golden days and balmy nights! In and out of harbour all the time—old friends everywhere—sleeping in some cool temple or ruined cistern during the heat of the day—feasting and song after sundown, under great stars set in a velvet sky! Thence we turned and coasted up the Adriatic, its shores swimming in an atmosphere of amber, rose, and aquamarine; we lay in wide landlocked harbours, we roamed through ancient and noble cities, until at last one morning, as the sun rose royally behind us, we rode into Venice down a path of gold
46. The colonel was a native of Rollings Province, born in the foothills of the Black Hill Mountains, and he’d always done his best to discharge his God-given duty to sneer at the effete citizens of such balmy provinces as Glacierheart, where snow accumulations were measured in mere yards
47. A balmy, soft warmth poured into the room, heavy with velvety smells, redolent of many blossoms, of newly fledged trees and of the moist, freshly turned red earth
48. The bitter halfforgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and years since then fell away and he saw that the lips turned up to his were red and trembling and he kissed her
49. All the preceding afternoon and night heavy thunderstorms had hissed down upon the meads, and washed some of the hay into the river; but this morning the sun shone out all the more brilliantly for the deluge, and the air was balmy and clear
50. “The Gosselins were crossing Balmy Alley toward the victim,” he said