Eries
- plural of Erie.
Example Sentences
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“This aquifer, they estimate, contains eight Lake Eries of water, and they have already nearly depleted one. It’s like draining the Great Lakes, but we don’t see it.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2016
In this way the Eries were in turn surprised and defeated in their last game with their rivals.
From Ocean to Ocean on Horseback Being the Story of a Tour in the Saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with Especial Reference to the Early History and Devel by Glazier, Willard W.
They had, indeed, a few towns beyond those lakes, situated east of the Niagara river, between the Iroquois and the Eries.
From The Iroquois Book of Rites by Hale, Horatio
After a long war, the Eries were practically wiped out by the Iroquois, in 1656, the few survivors being adopted into the Iroquois confederacy.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
The tape clicks perpetually in our ears the last quotation in Eries; the telephone rings us up at inconvenient moments.
From Post-Prandial Philosophy by Allen, Grant
