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

"We should not repine," replied his friend; "He that sends mouths, sends food."

From Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories by F. W. Chambers

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

The rich man would have me build monuments to his memory; the ambitious poor man repines when I forget him.

From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

A quiet place,—"slow" is the accurate modern epithet for it—"awfully slow;" but to Dorothy a quite suitable home, at which she never repines.

From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Edward Abbott Parry

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 Edward Sylvester Ellis

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

This was the only drawback to his earthly happiness; but he never repined, or let a word escape his lips, to betray the wish of his heart.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

The General's daughter repined, perhaps, after her former fortunes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

She felt herself alone, as it were, in the great mass of her species, and she repined when she reflected that the best years of her life were spent in this comfortless solitude.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Yet you repined and rather chose to pay.

From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank

What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve, mere engines of the ruling mind?

From The Right of American Slavery by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit

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 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