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

The only flower or shrub in all that once blooming lawn which remained unshorn of its beauty by the bitter hyperborean blasts was the Macleod thistle.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

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

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

Humanism shed a few bright beams on the hyperborean regions of Dundee and Glasgow.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved