1529 tr. M. Luther in tr. Erasmus Exhort. Studye Script. sig. f. v Againste his minde to abyde chaste vnto greate perille of his soule, his nature there againste repininge, and all the powers of the same.

c1530 Court of Love 1262 Enuy will grutch, repining at his wele.

1539 R. Morison Invective ayenste Treason sig. Cv Maye make all men that canne lerne to..serue where they oughte to serue, and not to repine.

1576 G. Whetstone Rocke of Regard 59 She repined at all the instruments of his ill fortune.

1637 R. Humfrey tr. St. Ambrose Christian Offices i. 118 One..is repined at, because hee hath some of the inheritance.

1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 94 I will not argue that, nor will repine . View more context for this quotation

1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) v. 97 Repine we guiltless in a world like this?

1767 J. Firebrace Clerical Char. 3 How can we brethren of the same corruption repine?

1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. x. 196 From pool to eddy..You hear her streams repine.

1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Aug. 169/2 Why should we repine about trifles?

1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 196 Why repine? There's ever someone lives although ourselves be dead!

1923 W. S. Davis Life on Medieaval Barony xiv. 253 To repine against their lot is ingratitude toward God.

1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze xv. 364 Like the good soldier he was, he never reproached or repined.

1994 P. D. James Original Sin vii. 58 She had left him everything but her pictures, and here their tastes differed and he didn't repine.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cx He had repined or disdained, that any man should fare well, or be well clothed, but hymself.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 66 We ought not to kicke upp the heele, as repining to live in that state, whereunto by birth we were ordeined.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 74 O see how men repine, That you so long conceal'd, should gull the time.

1680 A. Littleton Serm. before Lord Mayor & Aldermen City of London 5 We should not fret or repine to see them in such a prosperous condition.

1734 B. Franklin Writings (1987) 231 I never thought even Job in the right, when he repin'd that the Days of a Man are few and full of Trouble.

1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 348 We continue still to repine that our neighbours should possess any art, industry, and invention.

1843 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 502/1 The Troubadour,..repining that the humble chronicler should share with him the task of recording high deeds of arms.

1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 107 I shall ne'er Contend to save them nor repine to see Their fall.

1916 B. Wendell France of Today (ed. 2) vi. 243 You may repine to find that it is at once so commonplace and so far from final.

1958 D. L. Munby God & Rich Society (1961) 185 Christian prophets today often spend their time repining that the choices with which they are faced are not the ones with which they ought to be faced.

1998 M. Loveridge Hist. Augustan Fable vii. 219 He repined that he could not write fables.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus i. v, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 225 So that none in this behalfe can repyne or gaynesay vs.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. sig. Ee7 In signe Of seruile yoke, that nobler harts repine . View more context for this quotation

1613 T. Adams White Deuil 13 Wouldest thou haue permitted this to thy fellow seruant, that repinest it to thy master?

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 173 Contented with so much favour as was never repined.

1794 W. Roberts Looker-on (new ed.) II. 218 She repined, for their own sakes, the malignities of her sex.