All 4 Uses of
morsel
in
The Mill on the Floss
- We live from hand to mouth, most of us, with a small family of immediate desires; we do little else than snatch a morsel to satisfy the hungry brood, rarely thinking of seed-corn or the next year's crop.†
Chpt 1.3
- But Tom had finished first, and had to look on while Maggie ate her last morsel or two, feeling in himself a capacity for more.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- "Oh, you greedy thing!" said Tom, when she had swallowed the last morsel.†
Chpt 1.6
- To save something toward the repayment of those creditors was the object toward which he was now bending all his thoughts and efforts; and under the influence of this all-compelling demand of his nature, the somewhat profuse man, who hated to be stinted or to stint any one else in his own house, was gradually metamorphosed into the keen-eyed grudger of morsels.†
Chpt 4.2
Definition:
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(morsel) a very small quantity -- usually of food