refreshful

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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.

"A soul that dwells with virtue is like a perennial spring; for it is pure, and limpid, and refreshful, and inviting, and serviceable, and rich, and innocent, and uninjurious."

From Seekers after God by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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)

If a grape brought a savour and taste so refreshful, what must the grapes plucked from the tree of life be, and the rivers of pleasures, which are at God's right hand, for evermore be?

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

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

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis