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
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
I never remember so hot a day as the 13th of July; people in England can have no idea of the heat in Canada, which they always figure to themselves as an hyperborean region.
From Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 2 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
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
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 Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob
