bourn

Example Sentences

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As Winterson described it in a recent interview, this is “Shakespeare’s undiscovered country, ‘from whose bourn no traveler has returned.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 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

Its obvious aspects were those of a principal base of America's naval power and the bourn of an endless tide of tourists, for whom alone the place might exist with profit.

From Down Under With the Prince by Duncan, Sara Jeannette