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 remarkable fact concerning these stones, is the similarity, in numerous instances complete, of the sculptures graven on them to those at Nineveh, as though the hyperborean and the Oriental had a common origin.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by William Chambers
It is not merely Western and among Indians, it is hyperborean and among Esquimaux.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
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
What more amiable example of give-and-take than the intertwining of birch and orange, the thin ghostly sprays of the hyperborean caressing the fragrant leaf and golden globes of the sub-tropical?
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various
