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

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

Sincerely did I pity this poor man, for his scant and tattered clothing was no protection from the pitiless blast, and excessive cold of that hyperborean clime.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous