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 light hung over the hyperborean landscape as if loath to leave.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
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
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
The next place we entered was one more suited to a hyperborean climate than an Antiguan noonday — a blacksmith’s shop.
From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous
