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If 40 is the landmark birthday from whose bourne no athlete returns, what does that make 30?

From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2018

In which case at least some of the burden will be bourne by those who don’t realise they are.

From Forbes • May 27, 2014

Four days later, a heart attack swept 69-year-old Diarist Agate to that bourne from which no income tax returns.

From Time Magazine Archive

Years later, when the adult Oliver returns to visit her memorial tablet in Stil bourne church, he realizes that there was more truth in Bounce's silliness than in all his science.

From Time Magazine Archive

By night our ship ran onward toward the Ocean’s bourne, the realm and region of the Men of Winter, hidden in mist and cloud.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer