How To Use Lapland In A Sentence
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Recently they set off together from Kola on the Murman Coast to try to find a village from which jolly little Laplanders and Laplanderesses come sliding and skidding to market behind their stout-hearted reindeer.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919
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She gathered, near the marble quarry, quantities of the salix laponum, or Lapland willow.
The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale
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Typical of Finland's top-end traditional small ski resorts is the remote and charming Salla, which lies in the forests of east Lapland, towards the Russian border.
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You've no doubt guessed the festive twist already; yes, instead of trundling around sunny southern Europe, the titular charabanc will slowly wend its way to Lapland, culminating in a meeting with "the real Father Christmas".
It's a good week for … Spurious Festive Specials
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Then a train north; then an antique motorbus upholstered with violet velvet; then a wet cabin cruiser forty miles up a black river into the silver moorlands of Lapland.
The Shell Collector : Stories
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When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dried haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them, put her on the Reindeer, bound her fast, and away sprang the animal.
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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If a Scribbler cannot be easy because he fancies I have too good an Opinion of my own Productions, let him write on and mortify; I owe him not the Charity to be out of temper myself merely to keep him quiet or give him Joy: Nor, in reality, can I see why any thing misrepresented, tho 'believ'd of me by Persons to whom I am unknown, ought to give me any more Concern than what may be thought of me in Lapland: 'Tis with those with whom I am to live only, where my Character can affect me; and I will venture to say, he must find out a new way of Writing that will make me pass my Time there less agreeably.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I
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Cultivation of swidden was still common in two thirds of Finland as late as the 1830s, and was used occasionally in the whole country except for Lapland.
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Thus, certain species of _Helianthemum_ are apetalous in Lapland.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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It would have been utterly ridiculous to eschew the opportunity to double-handed fly-fish the huge and brawling salmon rivers of Swedish Lapland, just for want of the necessary skills.
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The use of the mushroom has continued up to the present day in parts of Lapland and Siberia, where it is dried and chewed or made into an intoxicating drink.
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Street -- [which, in imitation of Von Troil's famous chapter on the snakes of Lapland, the reader may accept, if he pleases, as a complete course of lectures on the "dendrology" of Oxford Street.]
Autobiographical Sketches
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And British valour is renowned, from Ind to Lapland's shore:
Colin's Return to Sea
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Shoes Around the World is a book about the many different types of shoes found around the world, including babouches from Morocco, klompen from Holland, lotus shoes from China, Saami reindeer boots from Lapland, and sandals from Africa.
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Dr. Hone went up and down the streets, loudly denouncing such "humbugs," while his partner, Lapland, laughed at the preposterous idea of learning all about materia medica in three weeks!
The Right Knock A Story
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Some common shorebirds and seabirds in the Southern Arctic are the semi-palmated plover, northern phalarope, lapland longspur, parasitic jaeger, and semi-palmated plover.
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Now I understand why travelers rave about Lapland.
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Shot in a catch-as-catch-can manner in 2003, the film tracks the misadventures of Jani Raappana, a 20-year-old slacker addicted to Subutex, the synthetic opiate that has replaced heroin in much of Europe and pervades the youth culture of Rovaniemi, the capital city of Finnish Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle.
Cooking Up Something Tasty
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Other passerines, such as blackpoll warblers, American tree sparrows and lapland long-spurs, may be similarly affected.
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The town had fewest species, but many of these showed larger numbers here than in the other ecosystems, e.g., semipalmated sandpipers, horned larks, savannah sparrows, white-crowned sparrows, and Lapland longspurs.
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THE big-hearted people of Tralee helped to raise funds to send children on the trip of a lifetime to visit Santa in Lapland next December by supporting a fundraiser at the weekend.
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When fishing in Swedish Lapland I have used some awesome looking stone fly nymphs which the grayling eat with relish.
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For Ghost Hunter she snowshoed in the trails of elk and reindeer in -18 degrees in the Finnish Lapland midwinter.
A wolf in the hand luggage
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Now I understand why travelers rave about Lapland.
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Pollen and macrofossil records from the Torneträsk area in northern Swedish Lapland indicate optimal conditions for Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) from 6.3 to 4.5 ky BP [89] and records of treeline change in northern Sweden show high-elevation treelines around 6 ky BP [90].
Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP
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Diatoms as indicators of climatic and limnological change in Swedish Lapland: a 100-lake calibration set and its validation for paleoecological reconstructions.
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic
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Holocene climatic change in Swedish Lapland inferred from an oxygen-isotope record of lacustrine biogenic silica.
Historical changes in freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic
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You have to beware of many dangers on the winterly roads of Lapland.
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However, in Finland reindeer are very common and Finnish Lapland is abundant in food for reindeer.
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I was waiting at the luggage carousel and suddenly, beside me, was this six foot blonde Laplander.
AN OLDER WOMAN
