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The lawns of the antebellum and Victorian homes along the street had been windblown with camellia and bougainvillea and hibiscus petals and pieces of bamboo and thousands of leaves from the live-oak trees.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The lawns of the antebellum and Victorian homes along the street had been windblown with camellia and bougainvillea and hibiscus petals and pieces of bamboo and thousands of leaves from the live-oak trees.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The lawns of the antebellum and Victorian homes along the street had been windblown with camellia and bougainvillea and hibiscus petals and pieces of bamboo and thousands of leaves from the live-oak trees.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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There were gentle live-oak savannahs, and in the spring they exploded into a rainbow spectrum of wildflowers.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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The lawns of the antebellum and Victorian homes along the street had been windblown with camellia and bougainvillea and hibiscus petals and pieces of bamboo and thousands of leaves from the live-oak trees.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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The house had been in one family since the early 1930s, and had been the first house built in a field in south Baton Rouge -- a field which would later become the Garden District, an inviting place of live-oak trees and Craftsman and Colonial homes, where families crowded the sidewalks and neighbors talked to one another.
ghost stories 2007
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The north part of town was infested with sawdust bars selling water glasses of tequila and shanties half-hidden in the live-oak groves, where Haitian mulattas plied their trade.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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The house had been in one family since the early 1930s, and had been the first house built in a field in south Baton Rouge -- a field which would later become the Garden District, an inviting place of live-oak trees and Craftsman and Colonial homes, where families crowded the sidewalks and neighbors talked to one another.
October 2007 2007
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The north part of town was infested with sawdust bars selling water glasses of tequila and shanties half-hidden in the live-oak groves, where Haitian mulattas plied their trade.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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The north part of town was infested with sawdust bars selling water glasses of tequila and shanties half-hidden in the live-oak groves, where Haitian mulattas plied their trade.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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