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Jane Eyre vocabulary
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bourne
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synonyms: rill, floss, rivulet, runnel ???
tags: [archaic]
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Definition:1. a boundry; border2. a destination3. a small (seasonal) stream
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But that the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,
Breathes forth contagion on the world,
Mark Twain. Huckleberry Finn.
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was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?
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The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns- puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honeymoon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness.
George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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Come o'er the bourn, Bessy, to me.
Fool. Her boat hath a leak,
And she must not speak
Why she dares not come over to thee.
Shakespeare. King Lear
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