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hyperborean

[hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree-] / ˌhaɪ pərˈbɔr i ən, -ˈboʊr-, -bəˈri- /


ADJECTIVE
northern
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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

When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards.

From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Reid, Mayne

Every few moments the beams of the house snapped like the timbers of a straining ship, and at intervals the frozen ground cracked with a noise like cannon,—the hyperborean earthquake.

From The Cold Snap 1898 by Bellamy, Edward

He would take the timid hyperborean Muse of the modern world and bathe her once more in the sun-lit waters of the Heliconian Spring.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

Taken as a whole, the remains of the mound-builders would seem to point to a hyperborean origin for both the people and their arts.

From Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 by Holmes, William Henry




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