repine
Example Sentences
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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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
