refreshful

Example Sentences

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The Lord's countenance, on face, is a refreshful sweet manifestation of himself to a soul, it is the Lord using familiarity with a spirit, and this made David more glad than corn and wine.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

They may seem to be as much forgotten as the drops of rain which fall into the barren sea, but each rain-drop adds to the volume of refreshful and purifying waters.

From Making the Most of Life by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

Farewell to all my friends, whose company hath been refreshful to me in my pilgrimage. 

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The swain that artless sings on yonder rock, His nibbling sheep and lengthening shadow spies; Pleased with the cool, the calm, refreshful hour, And the hoarse hummings of unnumber'd flies.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

"And what is cropt by day the night renews, Shedding refreshful stores of cooling dews."

From The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Cambrensis, Giraldus