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hyperborean

[hahy-per-bawr-ee-uhn, -bohr-, -buh-ree-] / ˌhaɪ pərˈbɔr i ən, -ˈboʊr-, -bəˈri- /


ADJECTIVE
northern
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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

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

Here the stars poise and smoulder close to the earth, and the moon is brighter than the sun of hyperborean England.

From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various

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

Fortunately, the period is past when our admiration for hyperborean poetry needed to be justified by its similarity with the classics.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson




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