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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

"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

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)

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

He would not have bartered these great things, these seeming phantoms--     Eternal as the recurrent cloud, as air     Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew-- for any of the baser goods that we call real.

From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.