repines
- present tense form of repine (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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O, my Fredy ! not selfish is the affliction that repines her earthly course of sorrow was allowed no shade!—that at the instant soft peace and consolation awaited her she should breathe her last!
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny
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 Milton, John
I told it to my Lady Pomfret, concluding it would divert her too; and forgetting that she repines when she should laugh, and reasons when she should be diverted.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
The wife repines, the babe declines, The leaves prolong their bend, Above, below, all signs are woe, The heifer moans her friend.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles
Now the envious man repines over the good possessed by another, inasmuch as he deems his neighbor's good to be a hindrance to his own.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
