Or, if that fountain be in truth no more, Then, near some other springwhich, by the name Thou gratulatest, willingly deceived I see thee linger a glad votary, And not a captive pining for his home.

no foolish pining

The heart thrives not in the dull rain and mist Of gloomy pining.

It was with profound interest that I read these documents, which entirely exploded the English legend of the landless Russian peasant pining for a few acres of land.

A long-tailed paroquet, which she had brought with her in the ship, walked solemnly behind her from room to room, mutely pining, it seemed, for those heavy orient airs that used to ruffle its brilliant plumage.

Her picture (the married woman's picture) is of an undesired and undesirable little spinster pining visibly and shamelessly in a parsonage.

In the first place, you are not to waste your time and spirits in long, romantic reveries, and vain pining because we cannot be together.