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- noun Plural form of
eyrie .
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The breeding sites, commonly called eyries, are situated on the edges of cliffs or outcrops over an open area, so that the falcon can launch any of its aerodynamic hunts at any time.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Michael.degroot 2010
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The breeding sites, commonly called eyries, are situated on the edges of cliffs or outcrops over an open area, so that the falcon can launch any of its aerodynamic hunts at any time.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Michael.degroot 2010
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The breeding sites, commonly called eyries, are situated on the edges of cliffs or outcrops over an open area, so that the falcon can launch any of its aerodynamic hunts at any time.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Michael.degroot 2010
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The breeding sites, commonly called eyries, are situated on the edges of cliffs or outcrops over an open area, so that the falcon can launch any of its aerodynamic hunts at any time.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Michael.degroot 2010
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Huge flies spun by, bouncing off the wire cage of the cutter, and giant bats raced across the heating water towards their eyries in the ruined buildings.
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Roman Senate, under Caesar, there comes nothing but the odor of the dung which is peculiar to the eyries of the eagles.
Les Miserables 2008
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She's just a very good storyeller reporting back from the eyries of the wealthy and privileged.
Having Wonderful Crime Ed Gorman 2007
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They were his prize pair, descendants of mighty eagles he had brought back to Rome for another triumph half a lifetime ago, snatched from their desolate mountaintop eyries on the northern fringes of the empire.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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They were his prize pair, descendants of mighty eagles he had brought back to Rome for another triumph half a lifetime ago, snatched from their desolate mountaintop eyries on the northern fringes of the empire.
Crusader Gold Gibbons, David 2007
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She's just a very good storyeller reporting back from the eyries of the wealthy and privileged.
Archive 2007-07-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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