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

But the wife of Mr. Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness that she could have no cause to repine.

From Pride and Predjudice, a play by Mary Keith Medbery Mackaye

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 Aquinas Thomas

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

He never halts, never repines, never is puzzled, like other men; that tranquillity, full of life, that ceaseless but graceful motion, "without haste, without rest," for which we all are striving, he has attained.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

He neglects himself because he was born in his own time and so far off antiquity, which he so much admires, and repines, like a younger brother, because he came so late into the world.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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 Thomas Campbell

Under the plane-trees Michael was stabbed with one pang for Lily, and he repined at the waste of this warm June.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

In all this suffering the poor martyr repined not, but to the last called upon his Saviour.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The queen was truly an example of patience and resignation, for she never repined, not even in her most agonizing moments.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

He never repined, nor once even alluded to Keegan.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

Not that she repined for herself—oh no!—but the idea of her husband's wan face was like a dagger in her heart.

From Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. XLII., May 1851 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