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

Yet they become stronger and more vehement every day, so that I am powerless to overcome them, and in weariness repine.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

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

From Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

The second of these pieces has been brought with great skill into regular form by transposition: but again one repines to find several touches gone that once were there.

From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine

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

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

The General's daughter repined, perhaps, after her former fortunes.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

For the first time I felt utterly forsaken, and repined at my lot as one of unmitigated evil.

From The Captive in Patagonia by Benjamin Franklin Bourne

Then the knight returned again to them and shewed the King's words, the which, greatly encouraged them, and repined in that they had sent to the King as they did.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I by Henry Cabot Lodge

Nevertheless they repined not, but took everything in the spirit of calm philosophy.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

Under the plane-trees Michael was stabbed with one pang for Lily, and he repined at the waste of this warm June.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

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

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott