A bourn is a bound. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
Obviously, we've had food-bourn outbreaks recently. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 13, 2007] Reference
Who have th 'eternal towers for our appointed bourn. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Strength for Daily Needs] Reference
De undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns. From Wordnik.com. [Young Skywalker – rest now you must… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The darkness is not thy bourn, the tunnel is not thy abiding home!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
It is the undiscovered country, from whose bourn few TV shows return. From Wordnik.com. ['Happy Hour' is over: Where are the breakout hits? | EW.com] Reference
The lookout reported masts bearing Green 45 and Wash-bourn had swung the. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
Farewell, my hapless daughter and yet thou scarce canst reach that bourn. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacchantes] Reference
June 27, 2009 at 10:58 am i is young thing. i wuzzen even bourn back den!. From Wordnik.com. [swim wif tigers - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The conventions were not bourn of political agendas or national power struggles. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Fox Guest: We Should Ignore McCain Since He ‘Was So Traumatized’ By P.O.W. Experience] Reference
But Du Meresq would be sucked down in the blue lake, and travel to that bourn alone. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
The cost of this increase should not, however, be bourn by American taxpayers alone. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 15, 2008] Reference
Wash-bourn was looking through stereoscopic binoculars at the Graf Spee on the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
But in far less time than it took you to read this, Wash-bourn was giving his next order. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
One of our party has long since departed for that country from whose bourn no traveller returns. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'] Reference
I did go on Monday afternoon, and found her on her way to that ‘bourn whence no traveller returns.’. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charlotte Bronte] Reference
HARRIS: It is the town in southern Lebanon that seems to have bourn the brunt of a recent air strike from Israel. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2006] Reference
There at last it lay, the bourn of my long and weary Pilgrimage, realising the plans and hopes of many and many a year. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Wash-bourn saw that both Headon and Maycock were still all right at the Director Sight, and Boy Dorsett was still alive. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
The upstart king is dead and gone; our former monarch now is prince, having made his way even from the bourn of Acheron. From Wordnik.com. [Heracles] Reference
And anon, I've bourn the brunt of personal rumour spreading myself in the past, but its no good getting worked up about it. From Wordnik.com. [Let the people know.] Reference
Now, it is pretty widely known that no uglier river oozes down to its bourn in the sea through unwholesome banks of low mud. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
Researchers study the diving behavior of auks using miniature bird-bourn electronic data-loggers called time-depth recorders (TDRs). From Wordnik.com. [Alcids in marine ecosystems] Reference
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; 30. From Wordnik.com. [Keats: Poems Published in 1820] Reference
Bound for the common bourn, the harbour of the dark!. From Wordnik.com. [Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays] Reference
Song had touched the bourn: fresh verses overflow it. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V.] Reference
"That bourn is Nassau, I reckon," laughed the lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [A Victorious Union] Reference
"Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me, ----" while the fool sings. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare] Reference
'Bosky bourn,' a stream whose banks are bushy or thickly grown with bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Milton's Comus] Reference
In the North Sea's waters that end not, nor know they a bourn but the bourn of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III] Reference
For him indeed existed not a single "undiscover'd country from whose bourn no traveller returns"!. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
I did go on Monday afternoon, and found her on her way to that 'bourn whence no traveller returns.'. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1] Reference
Baby has crossed that cloudy, storm-driven bourn of speculation and fear whither we are all tending. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
I stood by a cot and watched a saintly mother slip away to the "undiscovered bourn," and He did not fail me. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart-Cry of Jesus] Reference
We are going to that 'undiscovered country,' as your Shakspeare says, 'from whose bourn no traveller returns.'. From Wordnik.com. [The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale] Reference
This is indeed that bourn from which no commercial traveller returns, for the most potent reason that none ever comes here. From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lyveden] Reference
An illness which has long hung about me, in all probability will speedily send me beyond that 'bourn whence no traveller returns.'. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Burns] Reference
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