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

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

The only flower or shrub in all that once blooming lawn which remained unshorn of its beauty by the bitter hyperborean blasts was the Macleod thistle.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene

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