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

Andy's heart was lowly; he did not repine.

From Second String by Anthony Hope

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

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

He neglects himself because he was born in his own time and so far off antiquity, which he so much admires, and repines, like a younger brother, because he came so late into the world.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

He never halts, never repines, never is puzzled, like other men; that tranquillity, full of life, that ceaseless but graceful motion, "without haste, without rest," for which we all are striving, he has attained.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller

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

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

Yet you repined and rather chose to pay.

From Philip Massinger by A. H. Cruickshank

In all this suffering the poor martyr repined not, but to the last called upon his Saviour.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

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

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

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 whispered a poem: “The storm is past, no more repining Behold! the gentle sun is shining” “Yeah,” muttered Charles, “but the track is still too heavy for Seabiscuit.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand