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

Not all Tuscaroras either; there are Eries yonder to the right, and a few renegade Mohawks with them.

From Beyond the Frontier A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Parrish, Randall

The two tribes confronting each other were the Eries of the Huron family and the Senecas of the Iroquois; and theirs was a life and death struggle.

From The Story of Chautauqua by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

Near Bah-flo this morning a party of Eries shot one without success.

From Armageddon—2419 A.D. by Nowlan, Philip Francis

"There are indeed Eries waiting on both sides of the narrow pass, as a cayman waits for a water-duck."

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by Jones, James Athearn