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

Here the stars poise and smoulder close to the earth, and the moon is brighter than the sun of hyperborean England.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

Then the real difficulty of the Straits will be faced, and probably—as Russia has overcome the difficulties of the Baltic—so will the Canadian Northwest overcome the difficulties of this hyperborean sea.

From The Canadian Commonwealth by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

Like a thick miasmic cloud, as we read this great pagan critic, all the fogs and vapours of turgid hyperborean superstition are driven away from the face of the warm sun.

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