bourn

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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

That many of the writers made good catches is bourn out by the various photographs, and in some instances by personal visits by the author to the trapper.

From Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers by Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)