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  • The Last Exorcism and the wildly popular True Blood are fine recent examples of the bayou's persistent appeal.

    Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010

  • The Last Exorcism and the wildly popular True Blood are fine recent examples of the bayou's persistent appeal.

    Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010

  • The Last Exorcism and the wildly popular True Blood are fine recent examples of the bayou's persistent appeal.

    Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010

  • Is the slow death of the bayou's shrimp industry just a part of life?

    Bryan Gobin: Forrest Gump's Bayou: Bubba vs. Bubba on BP Spill 2010

  • Meanwhile there are little towns on the bayou's that serve great shrimp, lots of nooks and crannies to explore especially by boat and a pretty relaxed, tropical feel to the place.

    Chetumal 2006

  • I have stalled out my MG 1600A on a bridge high over Bayou Nezpique and in the midnight-black dark, a darkness filled with lives, buzzings, wispings, whiffings, far down below the bridge you could smell that blacked out bayou's flow, an ancient odor of prehistoric life that lived within the flow of that bayou, that bayou on that night with the invisible face--its face seen in its smell.

    Flows The Daily Growler 2006

  • When she was at the bayou's edge she stood there, and shouted for help as if a life depended upon it: --

    The Awakening 2000

  • When she had made for herself a cup of strong black coffee, and drunk it with relish, she quitted the cabin and walked across the old familiar field to the bayou's edge again.

    The Awakening 2000

  • There was a clicking of pulleys as the three appeared upon the bayou's margin, and Baptiste pointed out, in the deep shadow of a great oak, the Isabella, moored among the bulrushes, and just spreading her sails for departure.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • Mercer, Miela and I then hurried as fast as we could through the city down to the marshlands, and to the secluded spot on the bayou's bank where the boat was lying.

    The Fire People Ray Cummings 1922

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