1 She was warm and cold and sticky all at the same time and the feel of the night air on her limbs was refreshing.
2 It was cool and dim in the high-ceilinged hall and the vagrant draft that went from back to front of the house was refreshing after the heat of the sun.
3 After the tissue of social falsehoods in which she had so long moved it was refreshing to step into the open daylight of an avowed expediency.
4 For a moment she found a certain amusement in the show, and in her own share of it: the situation had an ease and unconventionality distinctly refreshing after her experience of the irony of conventions.
5 It is a most refreshing, convivial, beautiful object to behold.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 6 After a refreshing bath, Edna went to bed.
7 The repast, which was greatly aided by the addition of a few delicacies that Heyward had the precaution to bring with him when they left their horses, was exceedingly refreshing to the weary party.
8 And Meg took a refreshing peep at her glove box.
9 It's really refreshing to see a sensible, straightforward girl, who can be jolly and kind without making a fool of herself.
10 It was so homey and refreshing that I sat down on the floor and read and looked and ate and laughed and cried, in my usual absurd way.
11 The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her.
12 Its windows opening to the ground, admitted a most refreshing view of the high woody hills behind the house, and of the beautiful oaks and Spanish chestnuts which were scattered over the intermediate lawn.
13 The master looked asleep, and I ventured soon after sunrise to quit the room and steal out to the pure refreshing air.
14 He went into Mr. Barkis's room like light and air, brightening and refreshing it as if he were healthy weather.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 15 'Now that, my child,' continued Miss Mowcher, rubbing all the time as busily as ever, 'is another instance of the refreshing humbug I was speaking of.'
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE