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Boreal

adjective
1.
Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.
2.
Toward or located in the north.
3.
Comprising or throughout far northern regions.  Synonym: circumboreal.






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"Boreal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jerusalem a den of warring thieves. The rulers of earth are weary and turn a deaf ear on their peoples. The time is ripe for revolt. Sick of the accursed luxury and debauchery, fearful of the threatening barbarians from Asia and the boreal regions, who are hemming the civilized world, waiting like vultures for the first sign of weakness to destroy everything, the slaves in revolt—all these impending terrors assure me that the end of the old order is at hand. But what will become of the new if there is no central ...
— Visionaries • James Huneker

... visible. They met Beneath its branches, spreading as a bower, For months—for years; and the impassioned hour Of silent, deep deliciousness and bliss, Pure as an angel's, fervid as the kiss Of a young mother on her first-born's brow, Fled in their depth of joy they knew not how; Even as the Boreal meteor mocks the eye, Living a moment on the gilded sky, And dying in the same, ere we can trace Its golden hues, its form, or hiding-place. But now to him each moment dragged a chain, And time itself seemed weary. The fair plain, Where the broad river in its pride was ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. • Revised by Alexander Leighton



Words linked to "Boreal" :   north wind, circumboreal, north, northern, boreas



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