refreshful

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How different our smaller trials look, when they are seen from the distance of a quiet and refreshful rest.

From Julian Home by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

"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

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

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

You will find the broken rest and the troubled dreams which for years have made the midnight watches terrible, exchanged for the long refreshful sleep that makes one mouthful of the night.

From The Recreations of a Country Parson by Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison