BALM in a Sentence

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For BALM, below is one of 16 sentences:
Her sweet sympathy and her bright-eyed interest in every word he uttered were balm upon the wound left by Suellen's supposed defection.

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 Meanings and Examples of BALM
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balm
 n.  something that relieves pain
Classic Sentence:
1  It was not the lifting up of her heart to God that brought this balm, for religion went no more than lip deep with her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Her sweet sympathy and her bright-eyed interest in every word he uttered were balm upon the wound left by Suellen's supposed defection.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  So the spring months went by, the cool rains of April passing into the warm balm of green May weather.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  Everything was fresh and dewy and silent and green and the sight of the cotton fields brought a measure of balm and comfort to her sore heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Poor, dear woman," said Debray, "she is no doubt occupied in distilling balm for the hospitals, or in making cosmetics for herself or friends.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 109. The Assizes.
7  The hard, bitter look came back again as he said that, and it troubled Amy, for she did not know what balm to apply.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
8  His last words were balm: they seemed to imply that it imported something to him whether I forgot him or not.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  The quincunxes and flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI—HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER
10  Ah, monsieur, you infuse genuine balm into my blood.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 25 PORTHOS
11  You have poured balm into my anxious soul.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
12  This Venus bore down, her shape girt in a dim halo; this she steeps with secret healing in the river-water poured out and sparkling abrim, and sprinkles life-giving juice of ambrosia and scented balm.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence:
1  Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
2  These words cut me: yet what could I do or I say? I ought probably to have done or said nothing; but I was so tortured by a sense of remorse at thus hurting his feelings, I could not control the wish to drop balm where I had wounded.
3  The new skin balm was welcome by middle - aged women.
4  The gentle music was a balm to his spirit.