gumbo-limbo

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Examples

• Lena Richard was a black caterer and owner of the Gumbo House who published New Orleans Cookbook in 1940.

• But she also recognizes that it places women who are told that they screened for HPV in a frustrating limbo.

• Keeping him in limbo seems to be the preferred punishment for him in the eyes of the Iranian authorities.

• The warring courts that left two men in legal limbo and ultimately resolved nothing?

• The 26 cases the Center found moved into that legal limbo when the courts sent out letters.

• We're stationed out here in this limbo to watch Saturn and report any activity we see coming from there.

• The chamberlain, with an ineffable gesture, wafted the taxi-cab away into some limbo appointed for waiting vehicles.

• He took me up to my own room, and I heard him going out to wake Limbo to harness, and at last heard him driving away in our coach.

• We cleared the gumbo cut west of the Beaver at a pretty good clip, in order to make the grade on the other side.

• Let the cult of that lusty Titan, the Limpet, sink awhile into the limbo of outworn idolatries.