refreshful

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

From Lay Morals by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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 Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

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

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.

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)