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  • The sun was shining through the moss-hung oaks overhead, the wind smelled of rain and flowers, and the lawns in front of the nineteenth-century homes along Main were filled with yellow hibiscus and flaming azaleas.

    The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010

  • The hills sweep under old moss-hung oaks and tall longleaf pines.

    A Novelist Takes Aim Thomas McGuane 2009

  • And yet for all the product's familiarity, the family behind the sauce remains something of a mystery, still operating from remote Avery Island, part of southern Louisiana's Acadian Gothic landscape of high canopies and moss-hung cypress trees.

    Ingredients of a Family Fortune Mark Robichaux 2007

  • He and his friends were having drinks under a pavilion and driving golf balls on a lighted practice range dotted in the distance with moss-hung live oaks that smoked in the mist.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • “Fine evening,” I said, looking across the street at the Shadows plantation house and the bamboo moving in the wind and the magnificent, lichen-encrusted, moss-hung canopy of the live oaks.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • We headed up Bayou Benoit in the coolness of the early morning, between flooded woods and through bays that were absolutely silent, undimpled by rain or ruffled by wind, the willows and gum trees and moss-hung cypress as still in the green light as if they had been painted against the sky.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • “Fine evening,” I said, looking across the street at the Shadows plantation house and the bamboo moving in the wind and the magnificent, lichen-encrusted, moss-hung canopy of the live oaks.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • “Fine evening,” I said, looking across the street at the Shadows plantation house and the bamboo moving in the wind and the magnificent, lichen-encrusted, moss-hung canopy of the live oaks.

    Jolie Blon’s Bounce James Lee Burke 2002

  • He and his friends were having drinks under a pavilion and driving golf balls on a lighted practice range dotted in the distance with moss-hung live oaks that smoked in the mist.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

  • We headed up Bayou Benoit in the coolness of the early morning, between flooded woods and through bays that were absolutely silent, undimpled by rain or ruffled by wind, the willows and gum trees and moss-hung cypress as still in the green light as if they had been painted against the sky.

    Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

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