bourn
Example Sentences
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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
I know our postal service, know full well, Though we have told them to what bourn we flit, How many a missive shall obey the spell Of the old false address inscribed on it.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
