Refreshment

Examples

• So now, Wegg,' said Mr Boffin, wiping his mouth with an air of much refreshment, 'you begin to know us as we are. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She went into the kitchen, and stirred up the fire, and lighted the house, and prepared for the wanderer's refreshment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• When Shirley had been agitated, she generally took this natural refreshment; it would come at her call. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I hope, gentlemen, that you will come in and have some refreshment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The bread and cheese was presently brought in and distributed, to the high delight and refreshment of the whole school. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• To the servant who brought it he gave hospitable orders for the refreshment of the men in the kitchen. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If you please, ma'am, you are invited to step into the back parlour and take some refreshment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Consequently he fills and empties his glass with a smack of his lips and is proceeding with his refreshment when an idea enters his mind. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• One of them was always taking refreshment. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• These circumstances, added to the refreshment I had received by their victuals and drink, which were very nourishing, disposed me to sleep. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• They had hitherto been busy in the church, and were now coming to take some little refreshment for the body, ere the march commenced. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of Wickham, and of hearing that he was universally liked. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Nay, good jugglers, seek ye refreshment other wheres. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure--an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Farewell, noble Cedric, said Athelstane; remember it is the true part of a friar to accept refreshment, if you are offered any. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Amy, who was handed about like refreshments, returned to the parlor on Father Laurence's arm. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Every Tuesday evening there was lemonade and a mixed biscuit for all who chose to partake of those refreshments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• More refreshments were ordered. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Peggotty had a basket of refreshments on her knee, which would have lasted us out handsomely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Hold on, sir,' said Mr. Weller, invigorated with the prospect of refreshments. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Many a time during the long, weary nights of experimenting Edison would call a halt for refreshments, which he had ordered always to be sent in when night-work was in progress. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Were no refreshments sent? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He made the salad; and uncorked the Champagne; and carved the chickens; and ate and drank the greater part of the refreshments on the tables. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Often at night, in the small hours, all would adjourn for refreshments to a famous resort nearby, to discuss the events of to-day and to-morrow, full of incident and excitement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Saladin treated two of the prisoners with princely courtesy, and ordered refreshments to be set before them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There may be peace, there may be leisure, there may be innocent refreshments of many kinds. Plato. The Republic.
• Mr. Moore has, I believe, sent up for refreshments for the soldiers and others engaged in the defence, for some conveniences also for the wounded. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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