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

It has been whiles a weary waiting-time, but it's sinful to repine.

From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various

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 Cunningham, Peter

A man who is cheerful and willing under difficulties will always make his way in the world, while one who repines and kicks against his fate only makes it harder for him.

From One of the 28th A Tale of Waterloo by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

O, my Fredy ! not selfish is the affliction that repines her earthly course of sorrow was allowed no shade!—that at the instant soft peace and consolation awaited her she should breathe her last!

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

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 Parry, Edward Abbott

This dame declines—a third repines, and fades, like the rest, away; Her lot she rues, whom a Rookwood woos—cursed is her Wedding Day!

From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison

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 MacKenzie, Compton

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

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

Satan, who had eyed me from the first as if he repined at the delay I had obtained, came forward.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

She struggled, rebelled, repined, and ended with yielding.

From A Letter of Credit by Warner, Susan

If a monk repined at such a lot, he was to castigate himself by eating only dry bread for a week and performing 500 acts of penance.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

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 had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott