repine

We are republishing Patterson’s repine in honor of the holiday.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2012

But if no one agrees, the author need not repine.

From Time Magazine Archive

Must Man, the chiefest Work of Art Divine, Be doom'd in endless Discord to repine?

From Time Magazine Archive

I will not pause either to accuse or repine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Sometimes, however, I repine a little and wish that I were, say, a porpoise, splashing gayly along at the surface, and making a noise in the world.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams

Who is he among the children of the earth, that repines at the power of the wicked? and who is he, that would change the lot of the righteous?

From Almoran and Hamet by John Hawkesworth

The florist nurses a tulip, and repines that his rival's beds enjoy the same showers and sunshine with his own.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

She repines, her womanly nature revolts at the thought-the destiny her superstition pictured so dark and terrible, stares her in the face.

From Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

The second of these pieces has been brought with great skill into regular form by transposition: but again one repines to find several touches gone that once were there.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine

One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

He was always cheerful no matter what difficulties he was in, and neither regretted the follies of his past nor repined over the hardships which had followed them.

From The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

There is something nobly pathetic in this deserted avenue—even the trees themselves have a mournful look, as though they repined because of the loneliness of to-day.

From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust

He freely emptied his pockets at my bidding, and restored to me the gold, for the loss of which I never should have repined.

From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins

If a monk repined at such a lot, he was to castigate himself by eating only dry bread for a week and performing 500 acts of penance.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

Sir, the Churches in this country have long repined at the position of the Churches in England on the subject of Slavery.

From Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847 by Frederick Douglass

More a conscious repining at their existence, mixed with revulsion at the thought that she occasionally had to share space with them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

Far from repining in the sheltered world of the rectory, she was surrounded by sensational, exotic, dramatic life.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2013

It goes: Somewhere the sun is shining, Somewhere the songbirds dwell, Hush, then, thy sad repining, God lives, and all is well.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John, Mr. Ganson and Dorchester repining.

From Time Magazine Archive

She whispered a poem: “The storm is past, no more repining Behold! the gentle sun is shining” “Yeah,” muttered Charles, “but the track is still too heavy for Seabiscuit.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand