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

She did not repine, for she had had a long, hard life and she was tired.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Ashe, Elizabeth

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 Ainsworth, William Harrison

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 Caine, Hall, Sir

Tasso: The golden age, ah! whither is it flown, For which in secret every heart repines?

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Champney, Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams)

He abhors a gentleman because he is most unlike himself, and repines as much at his manner of living as if he maintained him.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

A man who is cheerful and willing under difficulties will always make his way in the world, while one who repines and kicks against his fate only makes it harder for him.

From One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

That was the only thing she repined about, poor woman, her want of physical strength.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Grand, Sarah

Over all these beauties, her death cast a pall; and although he repined not, it was easy to see how deep a sorrow overshadowed his remaining years.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

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

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

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

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

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

Yet I have no fears now: what is done is done, there can be no repining.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya