All 6 Uses of
morsel
in
Dune
- The Baron picked up a sliver of meat, pressed the morsel into his mouth, chewed slowly, swallowed.†
Book 1
- She thought then how peaceful it was here in this moment of their tiredness, and she recalled once hearing the minstrel-warrior Gurney Halleck say, "Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife."†
Book 2
- She pressed two leaf-wrapped morsels into his hand.†
Book 2 *
- He could still taste the morsel she had fed him—bird flesh and grain bound with spice honey and encased in a leaf.†
Book 2
- —but nothing could stop this thing that had begun with a morsel of food.†
Book 2
- She could still taste their morning meal—the morsel of bird flesh and grain bound within a leaf with spice honey—and it came to her that the use of time was turned around here: night was the day of activity and day was the time of rest.†
Book 2
Definition:
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(morsel) a very small quantity -- usually of food