bourn
Example Sentences
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Or are there bourns of conduct beyond which I can never go?
From The Warriors by Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
We went our way, and up along the stairs The bourns had made us to descend before, Remounted my Conductor and drew me.
From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The bourns that mark the boundaries of the fields bear the names of families, not of individuals.
From The Soul of the Far East by Lowell, Percival
The name Brunanburg, probably signifying "the town of bourns," or watercourses, is unequivocally that of a town.
Vocabulary lists containing bourn
"The Tempest," Vocabulary from Acts 1 and 2
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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 3
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