Eric
a male given name: ultimately from Germanic words meaning “one” and “ruler.”
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Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
The Golden State Preps for the ‘Red Wedding’ of Senate Races | David Freedlander | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEAST“They are hypocritical on this very issue,” Shearer said about Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and other public officials.
The protests sparked by the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have become front page news.
Nazis, Sunscreen, and Sea Gull Eggs: Congress in 2014 Was Hella Productive | Ben Jacobs | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf they really wanted to get revenge they should have gone to Staten Island and found the cops that killed Eric Garner.
“At worst, Eric picked up a garbage can, was told by police to put it down, and did,” his lawyer, Martin Stoler, insisted.
Eric learnt the whole landscape by heart, and thought himself a most happy boy to come to such a place.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarEric secretly thought that he a very nice-looking specimen of Roslyn School.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar“You brutal cowardly bully,” shouted Eric; and in another moment he would have sprung upon him.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarSo Eric left the field, and wandered home, like Calchas in the Iliad, “sorrowful by the side of the sounding sea.”
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. FarrarEric stood still, trembling with rage, while his eyes lightened scorn and indignation.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar
British Dictionary definitions for eric
eriach
/ (ˈɛrɪk) /
(in old Irish law) a fine paid by a murderer to the family of his victim: Compare wergild
Origin of eric
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