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

The forest-trees combine To talk of peace when mortals would repine; And he is false to God who flouts the rose.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

At first the settler repines, but his difficulties are inevitable: he is silent, because his trials have long lost the interest of novelty, and all around him are fellow-sufferers.

From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West

Now the envious man repines over the good possessed by another, inasmuch as he deems his neighbor's good to be a hindrance to his own.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

I told it to my Lady Pomfret, concluding it would divert her too; and forgetting that she repines when she should laugh, and reasons when she should be diverted.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Peter Cunningham

Is there a man who boasts a British heart, that repines at the success and prosperity of his country?

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by T. (Tobias) Smollett

This dame declines—a third repines, and fades, like the rest, away; Her lot she rues, whom a Rookwood woos—cursed is her Wedding Day!

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

He repined because he had fallen from the proud pedestal where he delighted to view himself, being both the spectator and the show.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

Thus time passed, and they became neither richer nor poorer, as is the common lot of men who labor for their bread; but neither Gadallah nor his father repined.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various

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

The simple, ingenuous and acquiescent sweetness with which she said this, was a new pang to her lover:—had she repined, had she looked ill-humoured, his task would not have been so difficult.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Amelia Alderson Opie

Satan, who had eyed me from the first as if he repined at the delay I had obtained, came forward.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

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 had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott