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

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

This dame declines—a third repines, and fades, like the rest, away; Her lot she rues, whom a Rookwood woos—cursed is her Wedding Day!

From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

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

Perchance it never comes, and the weary one may be joined to that which heaven never intended it to be joined, or it repines and goes to the grave unloved.

From The Land of Mystery by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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

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

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

From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner

This let the party in for a long stay at Tautira, at which none repined, for the scenery and climate were delightful, and their new friends hospitable and interesting.

From The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

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 never repined, nor once even alluded to Keegan.

From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope

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

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

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