Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a refreshing manner; so as to refresh.
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- adverb in a manner that relieves fatigue and restores vitality
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Examples
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The world worships her as its perfect pearl: and we are brought refreshfully to acknowledge that the world is right.
Diana of the Crossways — Complete George Meredith 1868
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And though this cloud as a dry tongue after much wine craves water, glimpses of his tramp's walk with a fellow tramp on a different road, enjoying strangely healthy vagabond sensations and vast ideas; brought the vagrant philosopher refreshfully to his mind: chiefly for the reason that while in Woodseer's company he had hardly suffered a stroke of pain from the thought of Henrietta.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868
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And though this cloud as a dry tongue after much wine craves water, glimpses of his tramp's walk with a fellow tramp on a different road, enjoying strangely healthy vagabond sensations and vast ideas; brought the vagrant philosopher refreshfully to his mind: chiefly for the reason that while in Woodseer's company he had hardly suffered a stroke of pain from the thought of Henrietta.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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The world worships her as its perfect pearl: and we are brought refreshfully to acknowledge that the world is right.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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The world worships her as its perfect pearl: and we are brought refreshfully to acknowledge that the world is right.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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And though this cloud as a dry tongue after much wine craves water, glimpses of his tramp's walk with a fellow tramp on a different road, enjoying strangely healthy vagabond sensations and vast ideas; brought the vagrant philosopher refreshfully to his mind: chiefly for the reason that while in Woodseer's company he had hardly suffered a stroke of pain from the thought of Henrietta.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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It was a June evening, and he and Russell were alone; he had drawn up the blind, and through the open window the summer breeze, pure from the sea and fragrant from the garden, was blowing refreshfully into the sick boy's room.
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'_refreshfully_,' (45); and a vulture has a '_spreaded_ tail,' (p. 44.)
Early Reviews of English Poets John Louis Haney
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