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- noun obsolete, poetic The
north wind .
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Examples
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Amphibians expected in the region include the western toad Bufo boreas, and spotted frog Rana pretiosa, while reptiles are not found this far north.
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There were more than a dozen listed when you arrived, and to these he adds -golden toad, " "Bufo boreas, " -harlequin frog, " -yellow-legged mountain frog, " and "Canadian chorus frog.
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas Robbins, Tom 1994
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Professor Agassiz describes it in his _Lake Superior_ as _Esox boreas_.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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In 1989 composer Andrew Stiller completed a work for soprano and violin titled "mehitabel dances with boreas," which he describes as a "commentary on the homelessness crisis."
Archy and Mehitabel 1935
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The great scourge of the Crau is the north-west wind, the _bise_, the black boreas of the ancients, so violent as to roll over the pebbles, and to blow away the roofs of houses, and tear up trees by the roots.
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Bufo boreas, the western toad, and Pseudacris regilla, the Pacific tree frog.
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Good grief, who's running that network, David Duke. boreas Says:
Think Progress 2009
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"It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people."
Bracebridge Hall Washington Irving 1821
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Author: EwaKoryzna M2 ship owner routine, go out to xenon sector, blow up stuff, pick up drops, repeat =] Noobing in boreas here, pretty powerful with front 8xPPC, and few on side turrets.
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M2 ship owner routine, go out to xenon sector, blow up stuff, pick up drops, repeat =] Noobing in boreas here, pretty powerful with front 8xPPC, and few on side turrets.
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