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 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
Then, with the last week of the old year, winter swept westerly on hyperborean winds, and when these were passed a tremendous frost won upon the world.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
What weariness to the flesh is this tedious climb to regions hyperborean!
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by John Augustus O'Shea
He would take the timid hyperborean Muse of the modern world and bathe her once more in the sun-lit waters of the Heliconian Spring.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys
