Not that she had ceased to torment the child with her discontentedrepinings for the past, or her melancholy forebodings for the future.
She told him so, heartily and cheerfully, not marring the effect of her words by any murmurs or repinings of her own.
It is, perhaps, the most reasonable of all the repinings that are more futile than the vainest of regrets.
What doubts, and misgivings, and repinings entered into the system of Bernard Haldane's dark cynical philosophy, God only can tell; he never tried to make a proselyte.
There are pages on pages of repinings there--I could not let them see it!
If, after mature consideration, such was my resolve, it was doubly necessary that I should not lose the end of life, the improvement of my faculties, and poison its flow by repinings without end.
My principal objection to my companions in the drawer was their incessant senseless repinings about France, and their abuse of the country in which they were to pass their lives.
Our fleet now demands my attention, which, I am happy to say, will drive away loneliness andrepinings for the little runaway.
No bitterrepinings now possessed the heroic woman.
No vain or useless repinings marked the course of his conduct.
It would be an endless task to enumerate the bitter repinings and tender leave-taking between each member of the family, and the numerous hosts of sincere friends who pressed around them, eager to wish God speed on the journey.
And so staggers away, and in these miserable repinings passes the day and the night that follow.
In the midst of all these repinings and vain repentances, the terrible thought intruded itself that there was no escape for him.
Nothing but ceaseless repinings can follow your compliance with your mother's wishes; but there is something in your power to do.
In languid dejection or fretful repinings did the unhappy beauty therefore consume the tedious hours, while her husband sought alternately to soothe with fondness he no longer felt, or flatter with hopes which he knew to be groundless.
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