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
"Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me,——" while the fool sings: "Her boat hath a leak And she must not speak Why she dares not come over to thee."
From Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare by Chertkov, V. G. (Vladimir Grigorevich)
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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