repining

She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in ‘having a good time’.

Freeman called Lee “the Southern Arthur” who “accepted fame without vanity and defeat without repining.”

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

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.”

Far from repining in the sheltered world of the rectory, she was surrounded by sensational, exotic, dramatic life.