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Meanings of repine in English

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Usage of repine in English
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He did not repine, rating a good dinner higher than good intercourse.
The Guardian
2
Some repine at the orders of providence-attheir lot in the world.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects / Written Partly on Sundry...
3
And yet she did not repine in the absence of these things.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
4
She said she was not going to repine and languish in sorrow.
A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny
5
It was not-itis not a common infidelity at which I repine.
The Last Man
6
When he recovered, it was to repine at the lot of man.
A Woman-Hater
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But it was useless to repine, and fate had given us Ronda.
The Car of Destiny
8
They repine not for luxuries of which they can have no notion.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Province...
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For those on which we have been separated we must not repine.
Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee
10
May we never repine at our condition, nor be depressed by poverty.
Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
11
If I am beaten at carpet-laying all my life, I'll never repine.
A Houseful of Girls
12
Well, even so, he would not repine, for Naomi could see now.
The Scapegoat
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So I must not repine nor let the year go out in bitterness.
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
14
They do not repine, they do not chafe, even in the inmost heart.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century / and Kindred Papers Relating to...
15
If you return in better health, I shall not repine at your journey.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
16
Nay, child, you must not repine at the will of Heaven.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
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