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Meanings of repine at in English

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Usage of repine at in English
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Some repine at the orders of providence-attheir lot in the world.
Sermons on Various Important Subjects / Written Partly on Sundry...
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When he recovered, it was to repine at the lot of man.
A Woman-Hater
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May we never repine at our condition, nor be depressed by poverty.
Routledge's Manual of Etiquette
4
If you return in better health, I shall not repine at your journey.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
5
Nay, child, you must not repine at the will of Heaven.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue / A Tal...
6
But Fyodor did not envy them nor repine at his lot.
The Schoolmistress, and Other Stories
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Ought you to repine at what is a subject for joy?
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
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Yes; God knows I do not repine at His will.
Marriage
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But he did not repine at the prosperity of others.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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He does not cause the great ministers to repine at his not employing them.
The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics)
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She was much too good a mother to repine at her daughter's promised gaiety.
Orley Farm
12
She began, at last, to repine at her situation.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil / Its People and Literature, Its Life...
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It would ill become her to repine at her loss, so infinitely her sister's gain.
Christie Redfern's Troubles
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And if so, shall I repine at your silence?
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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I know how tenderly you love me, and how you repine at your absence from me.
Mrs. Shelley
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The way in which the coxswain received this showed that he did not repine at his fate.
The Coxswain's Bride; also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double R...
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