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

If jest I pass, do not repine To learn it reeks not of the wine; For my Apollo is celestial, And from Bacchus shrinks as bestial.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Richard Crashaw

And next, whoe'er sees, We'll drink on our knees To the King; may he thirst that repines: A fig for those traytors That look to our waters, They have nothing to do with our wines.

From Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 by Charles Mackay

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 Edward Abbott Parry

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 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

He abhors a gentleman because he is most unlike himself, and repines as much at his manner of living as if he maintained him.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

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

He had never repined at his lot, had never wasted his breath in unavailing murmurs.

From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Mr. Cartwright, I fear that I have not been hitherto sufficiently mindful of this, and that I have repined where I ought to have blessed.

From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Mrs Trollope

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

The queen was truly an example of patience and resignation, for she never repined, not even in her most agonizing moments.

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Lady Anne Hamilton

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