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North Pole   /nɔrθ poʊl/   Listen
North Pole

noun
1.
The northernmost point of the Earth's axis.






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"North pole" Quotes from Famous Books



... here are like those you read about up at the North Pole," the cowman informed Ashton. "But we get our sunshine back ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet

... youngsters followed in the wake of the sleigh, the soldiers picked them up and carried them on their shoulders, on "piggy" back, or held them out so they could shake hands with Papa Noel and hear that dignitary gurgle his appreciation in wonderful north pole language. ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... something very intangible, and yet nothing is more actually felt—or missed. There are certain houses that seem to radiate warmth like an open wood fire, there are others that suggest an arrival by wireless at the North Pole, even though a much brighter actual fire may be burning on the hearth in the drawing-room of the second than of the first. Some people have the gift of hospitality; others whose intentions are just as kind and whose houses are perfection in luxury of appointments, ...
— Etiquette • Emily Post

... however small, each part forms into a complete magnet with its virtue active at the poles, which, when suspended, preserves its original direction; so that of two particles one is, in that case, always north of the other; nay, it is probable that each of these has its north pole and its south, as constant as those of the earth itself, which, ...
— Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects • John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness

... on a voyage of discovery to the North Pole was locked in the ice, one morning the man at the masthead reported that three bears were making their way toward the vessel. They had, no doubt, been attracted by the scent of some blubber of a sea-horse which the crew was burning on the ice at the time. They proved to be a mother bear ...
— Anecdotes of Animals • Unknown


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