Wordie: Repine

2 months ago johnmperry said:

Means wishing things had turned out differently. Jane Austen uses it a lot.
“Oh! that my dear mother had more command over herself; she can have no idea of the pain she gives me by her continual reflections on him. But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.”
Pride & Prejudice, Volume II chapter 1

5 months ago bilby said:

"Even Hancock, though he might regret the source of this sudden wealth, could not repine at its consequences."
- 'Jane Austen: A Life', David Nokes.

5 months ago chained_bear said:

"'I should be ungrateful to repine: but I could wish that Captain Aubrey had given us as clear a view of the Great Barrier Reef.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 257

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