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

Perchance it never comes, and the weary one may be joined to that which heaven never intended it to be joined, or it repines and goes to the grave unloved.

From The Land of Mystery by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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 G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Now the envious man repines over the good possessed by another, inasmuch as he deems his neighbor's good to be a hindrance to his own.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas

The second of these pieces has been brought with great skill into regular form by transposition: but again one repines to find several touches gone that once were there.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine

The wife repines, the babe declines, The leaves prolong their bend, Above, below, all signs are woe, The heifer moans her friend.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

He repined because he had fallen from the proud pedestal where he delighted to view himself, being both the spectator and the show.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

He freely emptied his pockets at my bidding, and restored to me the gold, for the loss of which I never should have repined.

From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins

He was always cheerful no matter what difficulties he was in, and neither regretted the follies of his past nor repined over the hardships which had followed them.

From The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

She felt herself alone, as it were, in the great mass of her species, and she repined when she reflected that the best years of her life were spent in this comfortless solitude.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

No one seemed to trouble himself whether the sick-leave or the sell-out meant hopeless calamity,—all were dashed with a species of well-bred fatalism that was astonished with nothing, rejoiced at nothing, repined at nothing.

From Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

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

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

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

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