For the linguine, blend the flour and eggs in a food processor until they form small crumbs.

Only I had no crumb, not even infinitesimally small, to offer my father on the history of the space ring.

'You're no worse than the rest,' says my instructor, offering one small crumb of comfort.

Pulse until you have coarse, irregular crumbs, no smaller than a pea and preferably larger.

But his bootprints were everywhere, the bed was mussed, and small crumbs of food littered the table.

Couldn't he be the recipient of the smallest crumb of luck?

He would have given a lot just for one crumb, one small crumb of hope.

Probably that was his only small crumb of satisfaction from opting out.

Drop in the butter, and pulse until small crumbs form.

Charis had brought that one small crumb of assurance out of the black with her.