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

He is a blessing; my heart acknowledges that perhaps he is as great an one as any human being possesses; and indeed, my dear friend, while I suffer, I do not repine while he remains.

From The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) by Florence A. Thomas Marshall

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

One complains of a real or assumed grievance; he may murmur through mere peevishness or ill temper; he repines, with vain distress, at the irrevocable or the inevitable.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

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 Fanny Burney

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

The rich man would have me build monuments to his memory; the ambitious poor man repines when I forget him.

From The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

There is something nobly pathetic in this deserted avenue—even the trees themselves have a mournful look, as though they repined because of the loneliness of to-day.

From The Dukeries by E. W. Haslehust

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

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

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

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 Alexander Van Millingen

For the first time I felt utterly forsaken, and repined at my lot as one of unmitigated evil.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne

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

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

Yet I have no fears now: what is done is done, there can be no repining.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya