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The toll was especially steep in Sharkey County, in western Mississippi, where the Pierces were among 13 people who died in a county of 4,200 residents.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 27, 2023

His Emmy episode: “Tern Haven,” where the Roys spend the weekend with the Pierces, a family with its own share of eccentrics, and try to play nice so they’ll agree to merge their media companies.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2020

“The Pierces are not ostentatious,” Matland told me.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2019

Meeting The Pierces is an odd mix of glamour and domesticity.

From BBC • May 24, 2011

Then what a thrill transports the hunter's soul, When, with unerring course, his driven shaft Pierces the moving mark!

From Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala by Arnold, Edwin, Sir