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[bawrn, bohrn] / bɔrn, boʊrn /




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Paul Reubens has left the Earth, riding a sporty red-and-white bicycle into that Puppetland from whose bourn no traveler returns, but leaving us with his great creation and alter ego: Pee-wee Herman.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 2023

In other words, was Hamlet right to call death an inescapable boundary, “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns?”

From New York Times • Jan. 21, 2021

It is the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns and all that.

From Slate • May 9, 2018

Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” writes vividly, if not quite accurately, of “the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler returns.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2015

The sexton went mad with the fright he had sustained, and in a short time entered that bourn whence he had so unintentionally recovered the burgomaster's wife.

From Folk-lore and Legends: German by Anonymous




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