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
What then must be their appearance during the long, trying winter of these hyperborean regions?
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
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 light hung over the hyperborean landscape as if loath to leave.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
Sincerely did I pity this poor man, for his scant and tattered clothing was no protection from the pitiless blast, and excessive cold of that hyperborean clime.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous