I confess, when I witnessed these showy and costly preparations, and pictured to myself the magnificent scene for which they were intendedthose formidable animals contending in mortal conflictthe thousands of gaily dressed spectators, gazing in breathless anxiety,I repined at my lot, and regretted I had not been born in a condition which, though of less dignity, would not have cut me off from some of the most exquisite pleasures of life.

It is the Lord's will; and he, instead of repining against it, must carry it out as far as he is concerned.

You must resign yourselves without repining to such chastisement as you have provoked, and must put your whole trust and confidence in God.

When did felicity repine in deserts? ASPASIA.

This demonstration we see around us gives the plainest evidence that there is no disposition to indulge in useless repinings at the results of that great struggle.

either of us again sees this grand display of rock and water, of brown mountain and shining glacier; we will not prove ourselves ungrateful for the happiness we have, by repining for that which is impossible.

His habits of authority were unsuited to their habits of a presuming equality, perhaps; and it is impossible for the comparatively powerful and affluent to escape the envy and repinings of men, who, unable to draw the real distinctions that separate the gentleman from the low-minded and grovelling, impute their advantages to accidents and money.

The joint adventure was a failure, and except a little repining on the part of the one for the loss of his advance, and of grudging on that of the other for the waste of his time, no sharper feeling ought to have arisen between them.

Having accomplished this sad rite, he cried from the fulness of his soul: "Oh, that there had been but one, only one saved, with whom I might converse!" John Stevens, however, was a practical sort of a fellow, and, instead of repining over his sad fate, he determined to bring away everything valuable on board.

But of black men the numbers are too great who are now repining under English cruelty; and the custom of voluntary cremation is not yet lost among the ladies of India.

And every face I saw was brave and cheerful, though the skin of many and many a lad was stretched tight over his bones with the pain he had known, and there was a look in their eyes, a look with no repining in it, or complaint, but with the evidences of a terrible pain, bravely suffered, that sent the tears starting to my eyes more than once.

" The duke sighedperhaps he thought that it would be all the better if she had; but, fancying there was something, after all, slightly contemptuous in her manner, as though she thought it unmanly in him to repine about leaving her, he said no more.