English vocabulary examples in context: balm
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 1.
Good Lord, how unhappy she will be!' But as we said before, the fact of Adelaida's approaching marriage was balm to the mother.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 2.
The quincunxes and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 3.
Herbert gathered several shoots of the basil, rosemary, balm, betony, etc.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 4.
But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 5.
I would by now be dragging my weary limbs, and ready to drop with sleep; the balmy scent of the lime-trees seemed a consolation which I could obtain only at the price of great suffering and exhaustion, and not worthy of the effort.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 6.
But, most of all, that 'every fruit visited and examinee one by one, by myself' had brought balm to his sufferings by carrying hi mind off to a region which he rarely visited, although it was his by right, as the heir of a rich and respectable middle-class family in which had been handed down from generation to generation the knowledge of the 'right places' and the art of ordering things from shops.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 7.
Among these delightful themes stands that of woman, the balm to all our sighs and disappointments, and the most pre-eminent of all other topics.
Vocabulary in context: balm -- Example 8.
But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
