Example Sentences

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I had passed two whole years alone unrepining, but now I was miserable.

From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

She bore the wrongs which she suffered as a wife with a very patient and unrepining spirit, and loved her husband with the most devoted attachment to the end.

From Cleopatra by Abbott, Jacob

This prostration and sweet unrepining obedience exquisitely touched and flattered George Osborne.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Could he call him back from his pleasure now, and have him take up this struggle grown too heavy to fight single-handed? and would he be manful, brave, clear-sighted, and unrepining?

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

If I could but teach your friend to bear a little adversity as unrepining as I have borne sickness, we might be very happy.

From The King's Highway by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)