The prince followed him with his eyes, and then gave way to bitter repining.

But such repining was of no avail, and I forced myself to think of other things.

"No more, then, on your life, of this weak and cowardly repining!

Each knew he would do his best and there would be no repining; we had outgrown such follies.

This constant repining will never do."

"Weary soul, cease thy repining.

He stood upright, brave without defiance, a man whom fate had tricked into folly, who, if he must, would accept his doom without repining.

He neither wasted his strength in useless efforts to break bonds that he had found unbreakable, nor dissipated his nervous energy in futile repining.

Could she have known it A few short weeks before, That his life was completed, And needing hers no more, She might-- O sad repining!

She looked with disgust upon the prospect before her: However no alternative was offered to her, and She submitted to the decree of her Parents, though not without secret repining.

There remained only a greasy and disgusting mass of lard.... It was no good repining; it would have been asking for trouble to visit St Mary's to buy stores.

It is only because this is so that our own life is possible; others have made room for us, and we should make room for others in our turn without undue repining.

But on this occasion, all I can do is trust my own repining - because that is my job, and that is what I've once or twice been paid to do by public taxes.

But one stood beside me whose presence repress'd The deep pang of sorrow that troubled my breast; And the babe on my bosom so calmly reclining, Check'd the tears as they rose, and all useless repining.

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

It began with railings about the neglect of the world- about merit being suffered to languish in obscurity, and other such commonplace topics of literary repining, and complained bitterly that it had not been opened for more than two centuries.

Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.

In any event, that's no reason why you should repine.

There seems to be little repining about this in France.

Well, even so, he would not repine, for Naomi could see now.

Stern as the decree may seem, I will not repine.

There is no going back now, no point in repining for what might have been.

She sat up straighter; it did no good to repine.

I think it may have taught me a little.," Then let us not repine for what has happened.

One should not repine: every silver lining has a cloud.

The most part of them concluded that he was repining for the loss of his former state.

Life might be busy, but it was pleasant, and she had no idle moments in which to repine.

He does not cause the great ministers to repine at his not employing them.

He looked back with repining to the comforts which He once enjoyed.

It is for us to submit, without repining.

Worldly goods are divided unequally, and man must not repine.

She never seems to repine, but has all the buoyancy and gaiety of childhood.

He need not repine if he missed the illusory heritage.

And yet other old men find themselves in similar misfortunes, and age does not prevent them from repining.

I had only three weeks longer to repine for the loss of liberty, when I made this rash attempt.

But the Lord forbid that I should repine under any visitation.

Even Sir Nugent ceased to repine, and waited for the answer.

When he chooses the labors which are proper, and makes them labor on them, who will repine?

"It is true that Anne can occupy the king, and while she is with him, he will not repine.

Why should I repine when I've got my wish?"

Why, Crito, when a man has reached my age he ought not to be repining at the prospect of death.

I will not argue that, nor will repine.