bourne

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A short distance this side of the shrine the road turns sharply to the left, just before crossing a bourne which is six leagues from Westminster.

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  • "The application at East-bourne was first-class, everyone's delighted in the changing room."
  • Shirley bourne was also appointed to the post of PNO despite the complaints against her by staff members, it is apparent she has friends in the ministry, because all complaints fall on deaf ears. —  WordPress.com News
  • Melbourne is awesome because it has the word bourne in it like Jason Bourne from the Bourne Indentity. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
  • Happiness is the ultimate bourne, the Olympian goal, the intense and burning star towards which we travel. —  Lewis Rand
  • Many times had she seen the journey taken by a man's face to that haunted bourne, arrived at which it is scarcely any more a man's face, but only a mask expressive of one, or of many, sins. —  Flames
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