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repiner

noun as in mourner

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Alas for maiden, alas for judge, For rich repiner and household drudge!

Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge!

Alas for maiden, alas for Judge, For rich repiner and household drudge!

Thou base repiner at another's joy, ��Whose eye turns green at merit not thine own, Oh, far away from generous Britons fly, ��And find on meaner climes a fitter throne.

The thought of long days in London with Lady Susan, and of long evenings with no mamma, and with papa either writing or at his chambers, began from force of contrast to seem doubly like banishment to poor little Queen Bee, but whatever faults she had, she was no repiner.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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