All 3 Uses of
morsel
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- My petition is, that a morsel of stone or wood, with my husband's name, may be placed over him to show where he lies.†
Chpt 2.8 *
- In the morning, with my tools upon my shoulder, eating my morsel of black bread as I go, I make a circuit by the prison, on my way to my work.†
Chpt 2.15
- There was a change on the village where the fountain fell, and where the mender of roads went forth daily to hammer out of the stones on the highway such morsels of bread as might serve for patches to hold his poor ignorant soul and his poor reduced body together.†
Chpt 2.23
Definition:
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(morsel) a very small quantity -- usually of food