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

But now there is cause to repine, a Dread portent of what to expect: A bull has got loose in the china And nothing, no, nothing's been wrecked.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various