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borne

/boɹn/ adjective C1
  1. carried, supported.
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This made Marilla more nervous than ever; she had an uncomfortable feeling that while this odd child’s body might be there at the table her spirit was far away in some remote airy cloudland, borne aloft on the wings of imagination.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 42 · C1
Rachel’s own children could have borne smarting testimony--did not appeal to Marilla.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 67 · C1
Anne felt that she could not have borne it if she had not been going to the concert, for nothing else was discussed that day in school.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 148 · C1
I shouted; but only the same half-human cry of the fall was borne back to my ears.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 124 · B2

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