I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Matilda tasted, she gratefully enjoyed the present good, nor repined when ❋ Unknown (2008)
Cecilia, however, repined not much at the mistake, since she thought it might be instrumental to procuring her a more impartial acquaintance with his character, than she could rationally expect, if, as she hoped, the explanation of his error should make him seek her good opinion with more study and design. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Eric's aunt came to stay and was so dreadful (she stayed two months) that we stopped quarrelling and just repined. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The same intimation she gave to Mrs Harrel, who repined at it more openly, but with a selfishness so evident that it blunted the edge of pity. ❋ Unknown (2008)
We repined, my Camilla, at the deprivation you sustained at that period. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But in this he did not prosper; for Cecilia, immediately upon her return, looking in her apartment for the projected alterations, and finding none had been made, was so disgusted by such a detection of duplicity, that he sunk yet lower than before in her opinion, and she repined at the necessity she was under of any longer continuing his guest. ❋ Unknown (2008)
And thus, now soothed by the purity of her intentions, and now uneasy from the rectitude of her principles, she alternately rejoiced and repined at what she had done. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Her general character, also, for peevishness and haughty ill-breeding, skilfully, from time to time, displayed, and artfully repined at by Mr Monckton, still kept her from suspecting any peculiar animosity to herself, and made her impute all that passed to the mere rancour of ill-humour. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Eugenia had recovered her gentle fortitude, seemed to submit to her destiny, and repined solely she could not, yet, keep her engagement with respect to the trinkets, which though she had openly told Bellamy were promised to a friend, he had seized to pack up, and said, 'he could not re-deliver till they were arranged in their new dwelling.' ❋ Unknown (2008)
She planned an apology for her conduct with all the address of which she was mistress, and determined to bear his disappointment and indignation with firmness: yet the part she had to act was both hard and artificial; she sighed to have it over, and repined she must have it at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)
[1704] Habakkuk, they repined at others 'good, but in the end they corrected themselves, ❋ Unknown (2007)
He, Mr. Skimpole, himself, had sometimes repined at the existence of ❋ Unknown (2007)
I was not in this slight distress because I at all repined — I am quite certain I did not, that day — but, I thought, would she be wholly prepared? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Perhaps Russell would not have repined, since he professed himself dissatisfied with what he had said ™on the philosophical basis of ethics™ (RoE: 165/Papers 11: 310). ❋ Pigden, Charles (2007)
Have I repined or rebuked you for the way you have wasted it? ❋ Unknown (2006)
It may have been only my fancy that she repined because she had a cheek no more bearded than ❋ Unknown (2006)
He resented and darkly repined at the loss of position and property of which he had heard, and he scorned the fine sentiments which had led to nothing at all substantial. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
He cast a wistful glance upon the merry scene, where every cavalier had his dame; or, to speak more appropriately, every Jack his Jill; sighed at his own solitary state, a victim to the black eye of the most unapproachable of damsels, and repined at his ragged garb, which seemed to shut the gate of hope against him. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Clinker perceived the progress he had made, and repined in secret. — ❋ Unknown (2004)
