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Boreal

adjective

Relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind.

Toward or located in the north.

Comprising or throughout far northern regions. Synonym: circumboreal.

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"Boreal" Quotes from Famous Books

... deemed serious; but he became partially paralysed, and on the 8th of November he expired, leaving Captain Buddington in command. Captain Hall was buried on the morning of the 11th of November, the darkness of the Polar night being faintly illuminated by ship's lanthorns and the weird boreal gleam of the ...

— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

... North the wild news came, Far flashing on its wings of flame, Swift as the boreal light which flies At midnight through the startled skies. And there was tumult in the air, The fife's shrill note, the drum's loud beat, And through the wide land everywhere The answering tread of hurrying feet; While the ...

— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various

... hour succeeded another as if the succession were endless. Long, long before there was the sense of a boreal dawn in the chill darkness, the house stood in readiness, though none came. The servants were presently astir; the fires were freshly flaring, the furniture rearranged. In view of the freeze, the gardener had seen fit to cut all ...

— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock

... a suppressed moan. "He is our guardian, and has trampled us into a couple of policies. We had to yield, or excess of Boreal conversation ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various

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