repine

• But it was useless to repine, and fate had given us Ronda By the time we had passed through the straggling village of Campillos the moon was up, a great white, incandescent globe of light, so brilliant that instead of draining colour from rock, and grass, and flower, it gave new and almost supernatural values to all We had the world to ourselves, a wonderful world like a vast silver bowl half full of jewels. —  The Car of Destiny
• When His good time comes thou shalt of a certainty set out on thy journey So for a while Rheinfrid ceased to repine, and served faithfully in the Abbey In the years which followed, William the Norman came into these parts and harried whole shires on account of the rebels and broken men who haunted the great roads which ran through the Forest. —  A Child's Book of Saints
• Oh! different far in resignation that often wept when it did not repine--in faith that now held a tenderer commerce with the skies! —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
• Here I may even cease to repine, and may add my tardy consent to the decree which has taken him from me. —  The Last Man
• Nor ever murmur or repine-- Content, whatever lot I see, Since 'tis my God that leadeth me 4 And when my task on earth is done, When by thy grace, the vict'ry's won, E'en death's cold wave I will not flee, Since God thro' Jordan leadeth me Rev. Jos. H. Gilmore, 1861 372 Jewett. —  The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship

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