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
"No; the model was a barbarian--some Gothic earl or other--Watichis or Witichas--who can remember these hyperborean names," said Kalistratos, as he peeled a peach.
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 by Felix Dahn
According to his mellow descriptions, the equator has a decided advantage over these dull, temperate, hyperborean regions.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various
He was a Shetlander—a sort of shaggy hyperborean giant with a forbidding face, an appraising, contemplative manner, and many nails in his mouth.
From Romance by Joseph Conrad
When the cygnets are full-grown, and the frost makes its appearance upon the lakes and rivers of the hyperborean regions, the swans begin to shift southwards.
From The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire by Mayne Reid
