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Example sentences for "bourn"

Lexicographically close words:
bourde; bourgeois; bourgeoise; bourgeoisie; bourgeoning; bournous; bourreau; bouse; bout; boute
  1. All indistinctly apprehend a bliss On which the soul may rest, the hearts of all Yearn after it, and to that wished bourn All therefore strive to tend.

  2. An arrow sped from some eternal bow, Through change of firmaments and systems sent, And finding bourn nor bars, I flee, nor know For what eternal mark my flight is meant.

  3. THE SONG OF THE STARS From the final reach of the upper night To the nether darks where the comets die, From the outmost bourn of the reigns of light To the central gloom of the midmost sky, In our mazeful gyres we fly.

  4. Apparently the only advantage which the new waggon possessed was its ability to turn in a narrow road, but although Mr. Bourn not only continued to build such waggons, but also answered his opponents in two tracts, we hear little more of him.

  5. Bourn Fen, has been figured in Miller and Skertchly’s “Fen-land.

  6. The Act of Parliament referred to by Bourn was, presumably, that of 26 Geo.

  7. This bourn also is long since stopped up at the head, and the rest of the course filled up and paved over, so that no sign thereof remaineth more than the names aforesaid.

  8. Oldbourne bridge, over the said river of the Wels more towards the north, was so called, of a bourn that sometimes ran down Oldbourne hill into the said river.

  9. The southern brings us to Bourn, where the Bourn brook rises.

  10. Here we are 220 feet above the sea, overlooking the valley of the Ouse to the north and to the south that of the Cam, or, rather, of its tributary the Bourn Brook.

  11. Bourn Hall is a fine Elizabethan mansion, the seat of J.

  12. On the other side of the main valley down which the bourn runs, and opposite Beacon Hill, is another such a hill, which they call Old Winchester Hill.

  13. Corhampton, Warnford, Meon-Stoke and Droxford come within these two points; so that here are six villages on this bourn within the space of about five miles.

  14. From the Bourn we proceeded on to Wrecklesham, at the end of which we crossed what is called the river Wey.

  15. We went to this Bourn in order that I might show my son the spot where I received the rudiments of my education.

  16. Mr. Samuel Bourn, son of Mr. Bourn of Birmingham, was ordained co-pastor with Dr.

  17. Mr. Bourn removed to Norwich not many months before his death, and died in the 83rd year of his age; he was interred in the burying ground of the Octagon Chapel.

  18. I found Mr. Bourn himself well, but fatigued on account of the indisposition of Mrs. B.

  19. We came to anchor off Belize early in the forenoon, when I made it my business to see Mr. Bourn first alone; afterwards returned for Mrs. Henderson and child in the afternoon.

  20. The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns.

  21. That bourn is Nassau, I reckon," laughed the lieutenant.

  22. We reached in safety our bourn for the night at the bottom of the hill, and discovered the hostelry by the sign which swung above the door.

  23. Thy breast shall nourish sorrows, and thy fears Shall haunt the olives and the sunset bell; Ah, thou shalt sigh for Francis and his cell, And beat with Dante to the bourn of tears.

  24. And I said, "The holy solitude Of the hoary crypt and the wild green wood "Are one to the God I have never known, Whose kingdom has neither bourn nor throne.

  25. Beyond the fathom of hope or fear, From bourn to bourn of the dusk I steer, Swept on in the wake of the stars, in the stream Of a roving tide, from dream to dream.

  26. Bourn was the centre of a large soke in Anglo-Saxon times.

  27. The manor of Bourn or Brune appears to have been much split up amongst various owners at the time of Domesday.

  28. The value of Bourn had risen at Domesday.

  29. Beyond the fathom of hope or fear, From bourn to bourn of the dusk I steer.


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    Other words:
    anchorage; beck; bound; boundary; bourn; branch; brook; burn; ceiling; channel; circumscription; compass; confine; creek; cutoff; deadline; delimitation; destination; determinant; edge; end; extremity; finish; floor; fresh; frontier; gill; goal; harbor; haven; hedge; interface; kill; limen; limit; limitation; line; march; mark; perimeter; port; race; river; rivulet; run; runnel; start; stop; term; terminal; terminus; threshold; watercourse; waterway