It is constantly breaking off thick pieces at its front, almost like a loaf of bread, dropping slice after slice.
There is something miraculous here, to be sure, something far more miraculous than the multiplication of loaves of bread and pieces of fish, something far more miraculous than numbers.
"I apologize, sir," Ms. Armand said, as Dr. Glass pretended to be a customer returning a loaf of bread with a piece of metal inside.
It doesn't bother me, because frankly, if you get to that point where you can't hold a drumstick properly, there are many other things in life which are far more important, like cutting a loaf of bread or a piece of cheese.
Until recently, Oyu Tolgoi had billboards in the capital that touted the IMF estimate that most of the mine's profits will benefit Mongolians, illustrating the point with a loaf of bread cut into two unequal pieces.
An oyster speaks to a loaf of bread, an apple to a piece of cloth, a carnation to a clock.
On a cold winter's day sometime in the early 1960s, my mother drove me down to the river Thames on the edge of London, handed me a stale loaf of bread, and watched as I flung pieces haphazardly towards a flock of wildfowl.
"He looks at the whole loaf of bread and picks out the two best pieces," said Williams".
You can also pick up everything from a loaf of bread to a box of Perugina chocolates (28 pieces, $18.75).
Hence, people easily recognize if someone in their neighborhood comes home with fresh loaf of bread, a bag of sugar, or even a piece of meat.
Then she invited visitors to tear pieces from a round, coarse loaf of bread.
