Example Sentences

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LET Reynold's conduct, husbands, be your line; Who Damon's follows surely will repine.

From Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by La Fontaine, Jean de

Once removed—once in those forest regions, it can not be that she will repine for anything.

From Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story by Simms, William Gilmore

You have taught me a lesson, and I will repine no longer about the immutable.

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

He who sees - as I have seen - a sight like that, will repine no more that the primæval forest is cut down, the fair mere drained. 

From Prose Idylls, New and Old by Kingsley, Charles

I am too well acquainted with your industry and patriotism to think that you will repine at any trouble that this may give you.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various