repine

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

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2012

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I will not pause either to accuse or repine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

It is impossible for me to tell you how much I repine at my imprisonment here, but I dare not anticipate a change to take me there for a long time.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Marshall, Florence A. Thomas

Perchance it never comes, and the weary one may be joined to that which heaven never intended it to be joined, or it repines and goes to the grave unloved.

From The Land of Mystery by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

When I laugh, something within me suffers and repines; it is by no means rare for me to pass suddenly and without transition from the wildest gayety to the profoundest sadness and melancholy.

From The Cross of Berny by Fendall, Florence

At this who ever envies or repines I leave him to his lot, and like my own.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

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 Smollett, T. (Tobias)

Nature by bonds so slight to earth confines Her slender form, a breath may break its chains; And she, so much her heart the world disdains, Longer to tread life's wearying round repines.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

No one seemed to trouble himself whether the sick-leave or the sell-out meant hopeless calamity,—all were dashed with a species of well-bred fatalism that was astonished with nothing, rejoiced at nothing, repined at nothing.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Lever, Charles James

For the first time I felt utterly forsaken, and repined at my lot as one of unmitigated evil.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Bourne, Benjamin Franklin

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 Hubbard, Elbert

This let the party in for a long stay at Tautira, at which none repined, for the scenery and climate were delightful, and their new friends hospitable and interesting.

From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Sanchez, Nellie Van de Grift

When the crisis and the crash came that wrecked his fortune he went stoutly to work, and if he ever repined it was not known outside of the family and small circle of chosen friends.

From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez

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

Ripening but not repining, Paul seemed to those around him a strong and saintly character, though he knew himself still a struggling beginner at his endless job.

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