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Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.

From US News • Jan. 13, 2014

They share a pleasurable and innocuous fantasy, akin to pubertal pinings or the hankering of grown men�and women�to sail around the world, learn the Hustle or inhabit the White House.

From Time Magazine Archive

If my pinings and regrets have been so great, longing day and night after my dear mother, how much worse must that dear mother have felt for the loss of me?

From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Fowler, Charles H.

The older hands laughed at their pinings, derided their complaints, and swore that they would rather die and starve there, than return home with empty purses, to be the scorn and laughing-stock of all Hispaniola.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

One day—then comes the feast enchanting That shall all pinings well requite.

From Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Brooks, Charles Timothy