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
“I think I shall ask Professor Fortescue to allow me also to go to the Priory to pursue my art in peace and quietness; a truly hyperborean state, beyond the region of visitors!”
From The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird
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 John Cowper Powys
Humanism shed a few bright beams on the hyperborean regions of Dundee and Glasgow.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
I never remember so hot a day as the 13th of July; people in England can have no idea of the heat in Canada, which they always figure to themselves as an hyperborean region.
From Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 by Richard Henry Bonnycastle
