Sentence example with the word 'bourne'

bourne

Definition n. an archaic term for a boundary

Last update: September 13, 2015


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By an invention probably due to Humfray Cole and published in 1 578 by William Bourne in his Inventions and Devices, it was proposed to register a ship's speed by means of a "little small close boat," with a wheel, or wheels, and an axle-tree to turn clockwork in the little boat, with dials and pointers indicating fathoms, leagues, scores of leagues and hundreds of leagues.   [Please select]

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Boulton, Richard, 336, 339-340, 348 Bourne, John, 390 Bovet, Richard, 303 and n.   [Please select]

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Bourne, _The Teaching of History and Civics in the Elementary and the Secondary School_ (N.)   [Please select]

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"How restlessly and to no bourne dost thou move, lost soul."   [Please select]

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Another half-mile and they had reached the bourne of their expedition.   [Please select]

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Jem Bourne had been sent as our conductor, having been engaged as my head man.   [Please select]

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_ Fra Mauro's Map (1457-1459), Bourne, _Spain in America_, 14, and Behaim's Globe, Winsor's _Columbus_, p.   [Please select]

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bourn - bourne - bourse