Shall any of us repine that it is our lot to live in perilous and sacrificial days?. From LearnThat.org. [Thomas W. Lamont]
Shall we weep or repine at the thought she is gone?. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
But at this I did not repine, for to pass a winter in. From Wordnik.com. [The Gray Nun] Reference
I repine not at the lot which Providence has assigned me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
"I will not repine; but what a terrible life is before me!". From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
At the tomb feast thou wilt repine tearful along the stream. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Why should he repine now that fate had taken him at his word?. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Finger A Trotting Christmas Eve at Warwingie Lost! The Loss of the "Vanity" Dick Stanesby's Hutkeeper The Yanyilla Steeplechase A Digger's Christmas] Reference
I shall repine till thou art mine, Dear Maid of Newfoundland. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of Newfoundland] Reference
They repine not for luxuries of which they can have no notion. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808] Reference
Oh, ne'er will I at life repine; Nu, so lang ich in der Welt 85. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody] Reference
I felt no disposition to murmer and repine in my then condition. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
A lover of learning may repine, but a storyteller can't complain. From Wordnik.com. [A Real-Life Renaissance Man] Reference
"If they are shadowed, they protest; if they're not, they repine.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890] Reference
Frank did not repine, after Mrs. Dermot had casually intimated that. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
Some repine at the orders of providence -- at their lot in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Clarence anticipated death with calmness -- did not repine or murmur. From Wordnik.com. [The Garies and Their Friends] Reference
"Don't repine -- nerve yourself with resolution, and all will be well!". From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
But stop, I will not repine; the reward of my sufferings is at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Barford Abbey] Reference
Are we to blame, shall we repine, When unconstraind the passions rise?. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
But Heaven thought proper to take him to itself, and we must not repine. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
Or do they cause us to murmur and repine, as though we suffered unjustly?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
But his was not a nature to permit misfortune to narrow him or make him repine. From Wordnik.com. [Russell H. Conwell] Reference
Seeking greater prizes, why should we repine if the baubles and tinsel are not had?. From Wordnik.com. [Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn] Reference
I am aware that my days, perhaps hours, are numbered, but I do not repine at my fate. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776] Reference
But what cares I for praise; It is oft, says I, for days gone by, It's oft do I repine. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
Therefore, he that is self-controlled should neither exult in joy nor repine in sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Can it be wondered at, if under the influence of these feelings I began to repine against that. From Wordnik.com. [Six Years in the Prisons of England] Reference
"Nay, but it doth secure it," quoth he, "and that is why I repine at being deprived of it.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
They may repine in secret, but they must clothe their features with cheerfulness when their lord appears. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World] Reference
Our poor bard bore his misfortunes with patience, and, rich in his Muse, did not much repine at his poverty. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
She was never heard to repine; and young as we were, we tried to make her loving spirit and heavenly trust, our example. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Mr. Groaner sighed with much feeling, and said she must not repine, adding in a comforting way that the world was full of sorrow. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
Aside from the confinement, and the earnest desire to be doing our part in the war, there could be no cause to repine at our lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
It seemed wisest for me not to show myself again before Captain Pendarves, but I am afraid I did not repine greatly at the banishment. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Now, that such there are our Saviour here affirms; and he thanks his Father for that dispensation at which so many do at this day repine. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Death in the Death of Christ] Reference
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