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

The name of this place was anciently called Tiburn, from its situation near a small bourn or rivulet formerly called Aye-brook or Eye-brook, and now Tybourn Brook.

From Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir