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Example sentences for "refreshingly"

Lexicographically close words:
refresher; refreshes; refresheth; refreshful; refreshing; refreshment; refreshments; refrigerant; refrigerate; refrigerated
  1. Leigh held up the sketch she was finishing, then pointed to the broad alfalfa acres, refreshingly green in the May sunlight.

  2. At the break in the bank, opening a rough way down to the deep waters of Little Wolf, a draught of cool air swept up refreshingly against their faces.

  3. The mid-September day had been intensely hot, but the light air was beginning to flow a bit refreshingly out of the sky.

  4. On a slight eminence, shaded by funereal evergreens set in a frame of hedgerow timber, its red roof makes a cheerful spot of colour, and the interior shows a refreshingly old-fashioned simplicity.

  5. But, if the clay soil be not too well soaked, the pedestrian may take most of his way by field-paths through that green interval pointed out under the head of Kingsbury as refreshingly free from suburbification.

  6. They have come in with fresh drinking water from the spring up the Darro under the Alhambra hill, and a little later the water-sellers will be offering glasses of the refreshingly cool contents of their cans.

  7. In the centre palms and orange trees rear their heads, and the splash of the fountains, in one of which the sacred geese are kept, is refreshingly cool after the bustle of streets outside.

  8. Few present-day books are so thoroughly wholesome, fresh and charming as this quiet, old-fashioned romance, as refreshingly sweet as the name of its heroine.

  9. The plot is refreshingly novel and delightfully handled.

  10. The glassy, cool, translucent wave was almost visible before her, curling up at the end of the bed, and as it was refreshingly cool she tried to keep her mind fixed upon it.

  11. They are refreshingly good to a thirsty soul.

  12. Mr. Alfred Noyes (born 1880) is a refreshingly true lyric poet and balladist, and Mr. John Masefield has daringly enlarged the field of poetry by frank but very sincere treatment of extremely realistic subjects.

  13. As a literary critic he is uneven, and, as elsewhere, sometimes superficial, but his fine appreciation and generally clear vision make him refreshingly stimulating.

  14. Just to hear Felicia say "Vairee" mouthing it as Mademoiselle D'Ormy had done, was refreshingly different.

  15. Evelyn Schump, is a refreshingly original poem in blank verse, on a somewhat familiar subject.

  16. Beatrice said your ways were refreshingly primitive, and I think she was right," she said.

  17. I recollect you were refreshingly sanguine when I last saw you.

  18. The rest of his speech was ruthlessly and refreshingly practical.

  19. A rapid shower had cooled the air, and clouds still hung refreshingly over the moist street.

  20. So frank an appeal for participation--so outspoken a recognition of the holiday vein in human nature--struck refreshingly on a mind jaded by prolonged hard work in surroundings made for the discipline of the senses.

  21. How refreshingly beautiful the perennial bloom of Eden: Picta velut primo Vere coruscat humus.

  22. So refreshingly removed from the ordinary banal hotel salon--is eloquent of the absorbing, far-reaching pursuits and interests amongst which you live.

  23. A light wind blew refreshingly over them as they sat at table, and the rustling of the fir trees made a festive accompaniment to the repast.

  24. My dear sir, it will make your hair stand quite refreshingly on end.

  25. The sky is very blue and clear, and the summer's breath comes refreshingly to you through the leafy screen, as you seat yourself upon a mossy stone and join in the merriments of the happy circle gathered there.

  26. The air came in so refreshingly upon his brow, and the open space had not one revolting object to distract him from hallowed and exalted thoughts.

  27. One summer's morning they were earlier than usual, and emerging from the woods, warm and weary with their long walk, they threw themselves down upon the rock over which in the early day, the shadows of the trees refreshingly fell.

  28. If I am weak, I trust such weakness will be forgiven me," she whispered as she stood in the perfumed darkness, with a wandering summer wind playing refreshingly round her, and tears from some hidden fount of sadness stole down her cheeks.

  29. A fresh, soft breeze had risen and blew refreshingly in his face, but he never heeded it, for in some moods we take the gifts and graces of Nature as a matter of course, and yield her no thanks or acknowledgment for her gentle benison.

  30. It had been very hot in the market-place, but when they had gained the open down a honey-sweet wind blew refreshingly in their faces, and not only the moorland but the roadside was clothed with the purpling heather.

  31. The sun-blinds had just been raised, and the fresh evening air blew refreshingly through the wide room.

  32. Mr Shanks's language is refreshingly pure and his rhythm refreshingly musical, in an age which has made many attempts to glorify gibberish and raucous discord.

  33. The ground was covered with a carpet of leaves, the sweet, soft smell of earth rose refreshingly in the wintry air.

  34. She rubbed it into me finely on various subjects, and finally went off with her head in the air to find some one refreshingly ugly who could talk sense.

  35. They have urbane and pleasant manners, and are refreshingly free from affectations and fads.

  36. Besides, his eyes are very fine, and, if souls really shine through eyes, showed that he was refreshingly innocent.

  37. Despite such discouragements, being naturally obstinate, go we do; and here we are in the most refreshingly primitive and unfashionable abiding place, the domicile commanding a view which cannot be equaled by any public house on the island.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refreshingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.