Hope on for the best; where's the use of repining. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses] Reference
These deep, dense clouds of anguish and repining. From Wordnik.com. [Lays from the West] Reference
However, the girls were not repining at their lack of society. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
"Madeline, you are too young for somber thoughts and repining.". From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
And do thou, O reader, hear me without repining; for I speak truly. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Deeds of the Goths] Reference
But no need of repining, and time is money, especially in such a case. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
Let me wake, and cease repining; let me learn life's sternest lesson. From Wordnik.com. [Lays from the West] Reference
Therefore, cheerfully and without repining one should control the senses. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
Ah! There is no use in repining, unless one mends matters by deeds, not words. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
She hid them especially from her husband, whose repining chattering she feared. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This was the first time Roller had ever given way to repining before the women. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] Reference
If any sowing has gone wrong, do not waste time by repining over it, but sow again. From Wordnik.com. [The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition] Reference
'We must have no fretting, no repining, dear Miss Carnegy,' she persisted cheerfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
Weak and gentle spirits have borne without repining, sufferings as great as threaten us. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
It would seem that here was cause for repining, had she been of a querulous disposition. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
Surely nothing had occurred which of itself could bring to her either sorrow or repining. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But is it not becoming in us to confess, without repining, that we cannot realize the wish?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
There was no word of repining, no lamentation over the failure that had attended their quest. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
In the capacious arms of his mother, Samuel Saul ceased his repining and contentedly gurgled again. From Wordnik.com. [What Two Children Did] Reference
As for that Question of Boileau's, "What Pleasure can it be to hear the howlings of repining Lucifer?". From Wordnik.com. [Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697)] Reference
I prepared myself for dismissal, and hoped that, when the hour arrived, I should submit without repining. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
But deem not, gentle reader, that they had been spent by her in sinful repining at the hardships of her lot. From Wordnik.com. [Woman As She Should Be or, Agnes Wiltshire] Reference
Yet we find Rachel, the loved and indulged wife, more murmuring, more repining, more fault-finding than Leah. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Women of Olden Time] Reference
In the mean time there arose a murmuring of the people against the Lord, as it were repining at their fatigue. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
His soul smooths itself out -- there shall be no repining, no questioning: he will take the whole of his hour. From Wordnik.com. [Browning's Heroines] Reference
One also, by repining at one's abstinence, may come to be regarded as actually enjoying the most luxurious food. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
Whilst thus repining over my useless life, a poet passed by chance -- stay, was it chance? nay, there is no chance!. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
In a word he bears up with his wonted fortitude and good spirits, as we say, nor discovers the least repining at his fate. From Wordnik.com. [American Prisoners of the Revolution] Reference
The way he keeps his poor crew polishing the brasses must make life dreary for them, yet they seem to scrub away without repining. From Wordnik.com. [Sweetapple Cove] Reference
It was composed in 1819, at which time Clare was wretchedly poor, and this will no doubt account for the repining tone of a few of the verses. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Doctrines upon this Subject, which ought to make us the more tender in disputing the Will of Providence, or repining when it happens to cross our own. From Wordnik.com. [The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience] Reference
Persecutors for pardon, labour without repining, read with understanding, then will no Mystery be withheld from you, but will be very easie for you to find out. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
Poverty, repining and hopeless poverty -- a canker on the mind before unknown to them -- corrodes their spirits and blights every free and noble qualities of their nature. From Wordnik.com. [Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians] Reference
The bending heavens arching so grandly over us, so studded with sparkling joy-lights, and animated with the eternal cotillion of the skies, invites to no such irreverent repining. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
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