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Definition of Balms
1. balm [n] - See also: balm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Balms
Literary usage of Balms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glance at Private Libraries by Luther Farnham (1855)
"Where mental wealth the poor in thought may find, And mental physic the diseased
in mind ; See here the balms that passion's wounds assuage ; See coolers ..."
2. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1853)
"With greater care in regard to purgation, the same plan may be adopted in cases
of small carbuncles.— Med. Times and Gazette, Jan. 1, 1853, p. 24. 80.—balms ..."
3. The Chief American Poets by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"But with thy fleshless palms Wrapt not in Eastern balms, Stretched, as if asking
alms, Why dost thou haunt me ? Then, from those cavernous eyes Pale flashes ..."
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