Live Oak

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. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

There were gentle live-oak savannahs, and in the spring they exploded into a rainbow spectrum of wildflowers. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Davis Bunn (2009)

They flee for the live-oak tree that surveils the hay-bale corral of the World's Smallest Horse. ❋ Eisenberg, Deborah (2009)

When Barack Obama visited Austin, Texas on Saturday, November 17 on a fund-raising jaunt, his campaign chose the venue "The Backyard," a live-oak shaded, outdoor concert site that has hosted such music stars as Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, and Sheryl Crow, for the appearance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then you coast on down through rolling Piedmont terrain of South Carolina, over plains, swamps, through woodlands where Spanish moss haunts and feasts on live-oak trees. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Two tethered mules and a horse, hobbled, graze in the shade of a stunted live-oak, tugging at the dry grass with a kind of resigned persistence. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)

In Nebraska Territory, they saw their first specimen of the famous “jackass rabbit” and then their first sagebrush, for both of which Mark Twain would fashion great descriptions in Roughing It—the preposterous-eared jackass rabbit sitting quietly, thinking about his sins; the sagebrush like a miniature live-oak tree, the author gazing into their foliage like Gulliver.1 Nights, they donned their heavy woolens and smoked and lay down on mail sacks. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

A lot of these live-oak trees, we mentioned last night, these magnificent, old hardwood trees, very sturdy, we saw a number of these in Biloxi that -- where the trunks were standing, but the leaves were completely gone. ❋ Unknown (2005)

These beautiful live-oak trees cluster all through uptown, and those may have been blown ever and torn apart. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The smell drove us out, and we watched a public-spirited peasant beating the acorns from a live-oak near the station with a long pole. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He found it a humble habitation made of logs and slabs, partly sheltered by a great live-oak tree, surrounded by ❋ Unknown (2003)

[beware] [live oak]! ❋ Reaverlight (2008)

[This place] is like [live oak]. ❋ Pussyslayer6996.1990swagfag420 (2017)

“[Live] Oak” [more like] Live [Joke] ❋ User34567788643 (2020)

[Live oak] is known [for it's] "good [ol] boy system" ❋ RiriG (2018)

Of course, things could have been [worse], you could have [gone] to [Gilroy] high. ❋ Charles Dallam V.S.O.P. (2004)

california [bad town] dangerous [fudge packer] [live oak California] ❋ Sassy Person That Isnt You (2011)

[Live oak high school] is where you [wanna die] ❋ Jcavongh (2018)

“What school do you [go to]?” “[Live oak]” “[Oop]..”. - [live oak] middle school ❋ Sksksjsksksk (2019)

Wow that girl is so [fake] she must [go to] [live oak high in Watson]! ❋ Ayooooooshsbsb (2018)

Yo, [im] [heading] over to Live Oak Reserve [after school]. ❋ PostToBe76 (2015)