hyperborean
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Photograph: Apic/Getty In Barry Lopez's haunting, poetic book about the hyperborean realms, Arctic Dreams, there's a magnificent story about an Inuit family who are washed out to the seas on a calved iceberg.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
No; nor the Scythian neither, nor the Greek, nor the hyperborean.
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
The Teutons are a wintry race and often take their summer joys in a hard, hyperborean fashion.
From Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life by Stuart Oliver Henry
According to his mellow descriptions, the equator has a decided advantage over these dull, temperate, hyperborean regions.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
Land of a thousand sea-kings' graves,— Those tameless spirits of the past, Fierce as their subject arctic waves, Or hyperborean blast,— Though polar billows round thee foam, I love thee!—thou wert once my home.
From The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by W. S. (William Samuel) Symonds
