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Example sentences for "eyries"

Lexicographically close words:
eyne; eynes; eyot; eyots; eyrie; eyry; eyther; ezt
  1. We never succeeded in our endeavours to inspect one of their eyries closely, as the Dhuléb palm is quite inaccessible to climbers.

  2. Their nests are described as differing much in construction, some resembling those of Bottletits, being placed among reeds, whilst others are built on trees in the immediate vicinity of the eyries of birds of prey.

  3. Long years and rain and sunlight have made these castellated eyries one with their native stone.

  4. Some of their eyries appeared absolutely inaccessible to any creature unendowed with wings.

  5. To these eagle's eyries no other terrestrial being could follow, nor human power dislodge the astute monteses, whose beards, for all we know, were shaking with laughter as they gazed down upon their discomfited enemies.

  6. Palomas, whose crags were tenanted by numerous Griffons, and the strange growls made by them on returning to their eyries was often the first sound heard on awakening.

  7. Three of these eyries were situate on abrupt, detached stacks of rock, so easily accessible that we almost "walked" into them.

  8. Two of the eyries were in low belts of protruding rock which broke the steep slope of the sierra, a third in a detached crag about 150 feet in height.

  9. Freedom was born among the wild eyries in the mountains; and barbarous tribes have sheltered under her wings, when the enlightened people of the plain have nestled under different pinions.

  10. Belike, the eagles, from their eyries look down upon us Mardians, in our hives, even as upon the beavers in their dams, marveling at our incomprehensible ways.

  11. The poet Gray in his Journal graphically describes how the eyries were annually plundered, upon one of which occasions he was present.

  12. The eyries were perched high upon the almost inaccessible fastnesses of the mountains.

  13. Eyries was the originator of this mistake, he must undoubtedly have confounded the Famous Voyage of Drake with the Famous Voyage of Candish.

  14. We faced about and saw "Ronnie's torpedo-boat" executing a sweeping curve in the mouth of Eyries Harbour.

  15. I alighted and approached the outside car, and was instructed by the driver as to the route, an intricate one, to Eyries Harbour.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.