Jane Eyre vocabulary

And can you be so unnatural, whom dame nature hath nourished and brought up so many years, to repine as it were against nature.

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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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.

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)

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It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse,

Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe

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For my own part, I could not avoid reflecting how universally this talent was spread, of drawing lectures in morality, or indeed rather matter of discontent and repining, from the quarrels we raise with nature.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)