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REPINING

Traducere în limba română

repining adjectiv

nemulţumit; bombănitor.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I have committed follies, gentlemen, said Uriah, looking round with a meek smile, and I ought to bear the consequences without repining.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in 'having a good time'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Elinor honoured her for a plan which originated so nobly as this; though smiling to see the same eager fancy which had been leading her to the extreme of languid indolence and selfish repining, now at work in introducing excess into a scheme of such rational employment and virtuous self-control.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth had been a good deal disappointed in not finding a letter from Jane on their first arrival at Lambton; and this disappointment had been renewed on each of the mornings that had now been spent there; but on the third her repining was over, and her sister justified, by the receipt of two letters from her at once, on one of which was marked that it had been missent elsewhere.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Morland watched the progress of this relapse; and seeing, in her daughter's absent and dissatisfied look, the full proof of that repining spirit to which she had now begun to attribute her want of cheerfulness, hastily left the room to fetch the book in question, anxious to lose no time in attacking so dreadful a malady.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Here, she said, stretching out her hand with her contemptuous laugh, and looking down upon the prostrate girl, is a worthy cause of division between lady-mother and gentleman-son; of grief in a house where she wouldn't have been admitted as a kitchen-girl; of anger, and repining, and reproach.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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