Definitions
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- adjective smelling of balsam resin
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Examples
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Seriously, she has clue what to do about Iraq and has made no contribution whatsoever, other than that during her recent trip to Iraq she delivered 100 balsam-scented "Scent of Maine" sachets to the troops.
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She dipped a cloth in the warm balsam-scented water, and gently wiped first his face and then his lax hands.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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The air smelled of pitch and the balsam-scented sticks that were always burned in the spirit house to make the ancestors 'spirits welcome.
Stone of Tears Goodkind, Terry 1995
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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.
Followers of the Trail Zoe Meyer
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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.
Buffalo Roost F. H. Cheley
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Then he would slip away to the balsam-scented hilltop and be perfectly happy sweeping the chapel floor, dusting the pews, polishing the brasswork, rearranging the hymnals in the racks.
Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923
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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.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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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.
Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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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
Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915
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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.
The River's End James Oliver Curwood 1903
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