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
And no doubt, in that bourn to which his spirit had been translated out of a battered body, his spirit rejoiced that the manner of his taking off had been as it was.
From Sundry Accounts by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
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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