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Restful   /rˈɛstfəl/   Listen
adjective
Restful  adj.  
1.
Being at rest; quiet.
2.
Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc. "Tired with all these, for restful death I cry."





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"Restful" Quotes from Famous Books



... Maluka left the Quarters, and going back just before the dawn to relieve the Dandy, found the sick man lying quietly-restful, with one arm thrown lightly across his brow. He had spoken in his sleep a short while before the Dandy said as the Maluka bent over him with a cup of warm milk, but the cup was returned to the table untasted. Many travellers had come into our lies and passed on with a bright nod of farewell; ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... oils. Then the art-manager of that abandoned paper said that his subscribers wouldn't like it. It was brutal and coarse and violent,—man being naturally gentle when he's fighting for his life. They wanted something more restful, with a little more colour. I could have said a good deal, but you might as well talk to a sheep as an art-manager. I took my "Last Shot" back. Behold the result! I put him into a lovely red coat without a speck on it. That is Art. I polished his boots,—observe ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling
... when you have been reading a restful book, full of good thought, you establish an equilibrium, a relaxed state of nerves and particularly you have switched the current or direction of your day's thoughts. That change spells rest, and you retire and go to ...
— Evening Round Up - More Good Stuff Like Pep • William Crosbie Hunter
... dreams were not very restful. She was hiding something all night long from some creature that had a ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe
... me, puss. When once we gain some real notion of the extent and the unconquerableness of our ignorance, it is a very broad and restful thing to depend upon: you can throw yourself upon it at ease, as on a cloud, to feast with the gods. You do not thenceforward trouble yourself,—nor any one else,—with theories, or the contradiction of theories; ...
— The Crown of Wild Olive • John Ruskin


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