I find it to be refreshful and quite enlightening.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing Over Spilled Milk-a-What?] Reference

Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew -- for any of the baser goods that we call real.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2] Reference

Farewell to all my friends, whose company hath been refreshful to me in my pilgrimage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Morals] Reference

How different our smaller trials look, when they are seen from the distance of a quiet and refreshful rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Home] Reference

He saw the abyss she had aided him in escaping; and it was refreshful to look abroad after his desperate impulse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

After this man was healed of the wound given to his soul by the Almighty, he became very refreshful to others who had less learning and judgment than himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the Principles of a Portion of Her Early Settlers] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Making the Most of Life] Reference

This life is more substantial, — comfort is more refreshful, — life is more solid, — comfort sweet, that is true growing solid meat, this but sauce to eat it with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

We know the thing is vain: we know it is but an idle fancy; but still it is pleasant and refreshful to think of such a life as Byron has sketched as the life of Daniel Boone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets]

And here Eden would lie down at full length on the soft grass, and doze quietly, while the gentle breeze lifted his fair hair from his forehead with refreshful coolness; or he would listen while Walter read to him some stirring ballad or pleasant tale.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

Mr. Cunningham was a man mostly under deep exercises of mind, and although in public preaching he was to his own sense sometimes not so assisted as ordinarily, yet even then the matter he treated of was edifying and refreshful, being still carried through with a full gale, using more piercing expressions than many others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies] Reference

Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew ” for any of the baser goods that we call real.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer's Recollections]

I find it to be refreshful and quite informative.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Suing Over Spilled Milk-a-What?] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

Imperative, refreshful as dawn-dew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

He read, and rowed, and went to lectures, and worked at classics, mathematics, and philosophy, and dropped in sometimes to a debate or a private-business squabble at the Union, and played racquets, fives, and football, and talked eagerly in hall and men's rooms over the exciting topics of the day, and occasionally went to wine or to breakfast with a don, and, (absorbed in some grand old poet or historian), lingered by his lamp over the lettered page from chapel-time till the grey dawn, when he would retire to pure and refreshful sleep, humming a tune out of very cheerfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Julian Home] Reference