Sentence examples for cold counter from inspiring English sources

Then he pulled and stretched and flipped it over his head like a veil before laying it on the cold counter.

NEW ORLEANS — Keith Chancley, the senior shucker at one of the oldest oyster bars in the French Quarter, leaned against the cold counter during lunch hour with a knife in idle hands and nothing to shuck.

"In most cases, the people I've done have been dead for a while and they have about as much personality as a bit of clingfilmed chicken on the cold counter at Sainsburys', so generally I can detach myself," says Reynolds.

The front room of the shop had been filled with the smell of meat, and my grandfather had stood and looked around at the hams and sausages hanging from the rafters, soup bones and square bacon slabs in the cold counter window, the skinned red lamb with its sharp little teeth lying on the block while Luka cleaved the bone of the leg away.

Yet there is genuine dramatic frisson delivered by the ice-cold counter-tenor of Christopher Robson as Edward Kelley, the psychic or "scryer" who became Dee's ultimate undoing.

For example, heat pumps in each apartment substitute for a boiler, exchanging hot air for cold to counter the air outside.

Don't place them on a cold kitchen counter, which could crack the glass.

In the years before his retirement, he was seconded to MI5 to help with cold war counter-espionage.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGG) said initial indications suggested meat bought from the cold meat counters at two Morrisons shops in Paisley, Renfrewshire, could have been involved.

Mr. Weinberg of Wein Products, agreed that fliers seated next to a sick passenger are more apt to catch a cold, but countered, "If you can reduce the number of germ particles that reach you, you reduce the probability of inhaling an infective dose".

That's where the cold bean-counter logic ends, however.