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

She did not repine, for she had had a long, hard life and she was tired.

From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe

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

At this who ever envies or repines I leave him to his lot, and like my own.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

When I laugh, something within me suffers and repines; it is by no means rare for me to pass suddenly and without transition from the wildest gayety to the profoundest sadness and melancholy.

From The Cross of Berny by Florence Fendall

The florist nurses a tulip, and repines that his rival's beds enjoy the same showers and sunshine with his own.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

Is there a man who boasts a British heart, that repines at the success and prosperity of his country?

From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by T. (Tobias) Smollett

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

This was the only drawback to his earthly happiness; but he never repined, or let a word escape his lips, to betray the wish of his heart.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

I bore it bravely enough in appearance, but in my heart I repined bitterly.

From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Julia Kavanagh

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

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve, mere engines of the ruling mind?

From The Right of American Slavery by T. W. (True Worthy) Hoit

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

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

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

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya