Example Sentences

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"Repining is useless, if not sinful," observed Mary Percival.

From The Settlers in Canada by Marryat, Frederick

Now reverend Ely, like the deputy Of God's great deputy, ascends the throne; Which the Queen Mother and ambitious John Repining at, raised many mutinies: And how they ended, you anon shall hear.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Repining love is the stillest; the shady flowers in this spring as in the other, shun sunlight.—Richter.

From Pearls of Thought by Ballou, Maturin Murray

Repining because we are not angels in a world of no changes is folly, 696-m.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

I might have been more kind, more tender; now Repining wrings my bosom.

From A Selection from the Works of Frederick Locker by Locker-Lampson, Hannah Jane