What is "bournes"

Usage examples of "bournes".

This pleased the proprietor, who was now doing a good defensive summer business with the presence of the two Bournes in the dead summer season.

When this waxen body is consumed, you will pass beyond the bournes of this world and never return.

To start a fresh hunt on a resolute blast: No more an imp-ridden to bournes of eclipse: Having knowledge to spur thee, a gift to compare.

To put it plainly, my friend—and I hope you’re my friend—the Bournes, or whoever they are, are expendable.

And water seemed to run everywhere, down from the slopes of the Gunarring, pellucid bournes bearing pure drink outward to quench the thirst of the foothills and the plains beyond.

The land smelled of wetness, though it hadn't rained within the week, yet bournes flowed sprightly and clear.