Example Sentences

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He had partly raised the shawl, and a gush of free air came revivingly in, and enabled Leoline to gasp out a faint "I promise!"

From The Midnight Queen by Fleming, May Agnes

How revivingly it seemed to run through her veins!

From Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio by Riddle, A. G.

No more do the sweet purple airs of the hills round about the green fields of Saddle Meadows come revivingly wafted to his cheek.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The air blew as freshly and revivingly upon me as it had ever blown, and the healthy colour came into my new face as it had come into my old one. 

From Bleak House by Dickens, Charles