Sentence examples for casting bread upon from inspiring English sources

It was inspired, Mr. Malkin wrote, by the Jewish tradition of casting bread upon the water "to give, asking nothing in return but to be blessed".

Probably never before had a merchant brought to such exquisite perfection the large-minded art of casting bread upon the waters.

How far that seems from casting bread upon the waters, or from passing bread around a table at which misfits and trouble-makers are welcome, or, for that matter, from prizing the bread, as the Mass does, for its having been broken.

It affirms not just your faith in human nature, but also in something more mystical, something to do with casting your bread upon the waters.

Sometimes you get a plangent simplicity, as in "Ecclesiastes 11 1," in which Wilbur cites that verse's advice to "cast our bread upon the waters".

Notably failing to supplant Geneva (the Bible of Spenser, Shakespeare and the Mayflower puritans), Bishops' is best known for its unfortunate rendering of "cast thy bread upon the waters" as "lay thy bread upon wet faces".

(In recent developments, Mrs. Barnes has financed a foster-care home in Gorlovka, Ukraine, and written a book, "Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters," which she will self-publish this summer).

(In recent developments, Mrs. Barnes has financed a foster-care home in Gorlovka, Ukraine, and written a book, "Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters," which she will self-publish this summer). But word-of-mouth has spurred much of the company's growth.

That investment has turned out to be the proverbial bread cast upon the waters.

When Briatore resorted to casting aspersions upon Piquet Jnr's sexuality, Monza became reminiscent of Billingsgate Fish Market.

NEW HAVEN -- "Bread Upon the Waters," presented by Christians in the Visual Arts.