repine

We are republishing Patterson’s repine in honor of the holiday.

From Slate ● Jul. 4, 2012

Must Man, the chiefest Work of Art Divine, Be doom'd in endless Discord to repine?

From Time Magazine Archive

But if no one agrees, the author need not repine.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will not pause either to accuse or repine.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

But if I see you here I shall repine at nothing.

From The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II by Henry James

She repines, her womanly nature revolts at the thought—the destiny her superstition pictured so dark and terrible, stares her in the face.

From An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

Tasso: The golden age, ah! whither is it flown, For which in secret every heart repines?

From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney

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

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

Who is he among the children of the earth, that repines at the power of the wicked? and who is he, that would change the lot of the righteous?

From Almoran and Hamet by John Hawkesworth

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

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

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

That was the only thing she repined about, poor woman, her want of physical strength.

From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand

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