repine

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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

He did not sit down idly to repine at misfortunes which his manly exertions might remedy, or waste in fruitless lamentations a moment of that time in which the accident might be repaired.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Whymper, Frederick