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  • Her chin would tilt delicately to whisper some morsel of gossip in my sister's ear.†   (source)
  • He fell to his knees by one of the scraggly trees on the outskirts of the forest and threw up, retching as he coughed and spat out every last morsel of the acidic, nasty bile from his stomach.†   (source)
  • As I drifted away I saw him come out into the open to fetch the morsel of fish.†   (source)
  • At long last, when the last morsels of pumpkin tart had melted from the golden platters, Dumbledore gave the word that it was time for them all to go to bed, and they got their chance.†   (source)
  • Every day Father and David would leave and return together, sometimes with morsels of food or a piece of coal.†   (source)
  • She wanted to eat, to put a hand to a swollen belly, to wish that she'd never eaten a morsel and swear that she'd never eat again.†   (source)
  • " And if that morsel could not satisfy our hunger to be comforted, Pastor Merrill led us further into Lamentations: " Tor the Lord will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.'†   (source)
  • The only emissaries from the outside world are the occasional songbird who lands in the lindens beyond the quadrangle, blown astray by distant storm or battle or both, and two callow-faced corporals who come into the refectory every week or so—always after the prayer, always just as the boys have placed the first morsel of dinner in their mouths—to pass beneath the blazonry and stop behind a cadet and whisper in his ear that his father has been killed in action.†   (source)
  • As if on cue, the women peck at last morsels and then carry plates and bowls to the kitchen and dump them in the sink.†   (source)
  • In particular I remember a satisfying morsel of chocolate filled with lemon.†   (source)
  • Claire, a doll-like girl with immaculate golden curls, sat next to Miss Peregrine but ate not a morsel.†   (source)
  • Once or twice she had seen the father furtively slip the child an extra morsel from his plate, but he was plainly too spineless to stand up for her against his shrew of a wife.†   (source)
  • Sansa had never eaten snails before; Joffrey showed her how to get the snail out of the shell, and fed her the first sweet morsel himself.†   (source)
  • "They're only the tastiest morsels on the entire planet," I explain to Etienne.†   (source)
  • The choicest potatoes, the tastiest morsel, the tenderest bit of whatever there is, that's Madame's motto.†   (source)
  • The second potato melts in my mouth and I'll have to try another bit of cabbage, another morsel of bacon.†   (source)
  • He finished the bowl, scraped at the sides for every morsel, and I filled another bowl, growing even angrier and wondering how long it had been since he'd eaten.†   (source)
  • Then I remembered I'd always been told, "If a fellow's got so little manhood he'd hit a woman, it's up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain."†   (source)
  • I let every juicy morsel of anger and bitterness well up inside me, making no attempt to stanch any of it.†   (source)
  • The ones who saw our isle as a morsel of Red China's pleasure have struck their faces in keen astonishment to see many great so. called powers of the olden guard reel in dismay before our leaping strides and charged-up hustling, freewheeling idiom of high-tech personal accomplishment and betterment of all peoples.†   (source)
  • Sekhmet roared: "Where are you, my tasty morsels?"†   (source)
  • When the twins asked what cuff-links were for—"To link cuffs together," Ammu told them—they were thrilled by this morsel of logic in what had so far seemed an illogical language.†   (source)
  • Unkempt, unshaven, without a morsel of food inside me, I trudged around from morning to night, from one firm to another, begging people to take pity on us.†   (source)
  • Oh no, we're the lucky ones, we're the lucky boys ourselves, with such a morsel on our arms, says the one.†   (source)
  • Though he had taken no rest nor a morsel of food, all through the ninth day Tehlu labored.†   (source)
  • She pressed two leaf-wrapped morsels into his hand.†   (source)
  • He wolfed down every morsel in a matter of seconds.†   (source)
  • I had gnawed into the unsatisfying books and into my own unstocked mind without finding a morsel of peace or understanding.†   (source)
  • What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight.†   (source)
  • It is not polite to leave a morsel of food on your plate so, unwilling to offend, Moody ate the bugs.†   (source)
  • Often they would lay aside the tastiest morsels for the warders in exchange for favors or preferential treatment.†   (source)
  • Eric stuck a finger in Matty's creamed spinach and hooked a shreddy morsel toward his mouth.†   (source)
  • Tom offers cakes and Ann, who has never refused a morsel of food in her life, declines as a well-born, properly bred lady should, lest she seem a glutton.†   (source)
  • Akhmalu's son scooped a kidney, the choicest morsel, over a bowl of rice and handed it to Mortenson, smiling shyly, before serving the others.†   (source)
  • I bought a morsel of yellow cheese from the stand next to the cage and toasted it in the fire, which was a tricky business, getting close enough for cooking but not so close that the dragon got the treat.†   (source)
  • And now the boy took a morsel of white meat, making that same salute, and consumed it slowly, his eyes fixed on Armand.†   (source)
  • The fast consisted of soft puff pastries, delicious vegetarian dishes, spongy tortillas, and enormous cheeses from the countryside, with which each family commemorated the Passion of the Lord, taking every precaution not to touch the least morsel of meat or fish on pain of excommunication, as Father Restrepo had repeatedly made clear.†   (source)
  • I used to dream every night that my wife was dying or being murdered or that my children were choking to death on morsels of nutritious food.†   (source)
  • Not simply selling drugs, which he's been doing since he was fourteen, but precisely managing needs (of his heroin customers, just like his women) and not giving a morsel more than is required.†   (source)
  • For myself, I was too nervous to eat even a morsel and signaled Arthur to take away my plate before the untouched food was noticed.†   (source)
  • Every beat of her life and each day of her calendar had been filled with God events, and no morsel of food entered her mouth without God's blessing.†   (source)
  • Skim milk, provender, leftover sandwich from Lurvy's lunchbox, prune skins, a morsel of this, a bit of that, fried potatoes, marmalade drippings, a little more of this, a little more of that, a piece of baked apple, a scrap of upsidedown cake.†   (source)
  • Only the birds could get at them, and they fought over the little morsels, which meant there was a steady rain of bird poo and half-eaten figs onto the forest floor, which in turn was a permanent feast for the little red crabs that scuttled around and cleared up anything that dropped in.†   (source)
  • I pinched off a sticky morsel of the stuff and put it to my mouth, only to wince at the bitterness.†   (source)
  • She scrapes the trays of raisins and honey and pops the sugary morsels into her mouth.†   (source)
  • When he had consumed the final morsel, he wiped the blade of his knife on the sheets.†   (source)
  • It made a mess there, crumbling into gluey morsels that stuck to my fingers.†   (source)
  • Alec pounced on the morsel of advice.†   (source)
  • He goes down in huge morsels, head, chest, hips, legs, even the hands and feet.†   (source)
  • But the president takes a larger view, realizing that America is enthralled by such a young First Family and clamors for every morsel of news about their daily life.†   (source)
  • 14 12:00 A.M. BEASTS OF PREY Along with a flood of terror, a few morsels of Jessica's daylong cram session trickled into her mind.†   (source)
  • Time for a halt and a morsel!" and at once there was a great bustle of people dismounting and haversacks being opened and conversation beginning when Corm came running up to Shasta and seized both his hands and cried, "What!†   (source)
  • Gollum watched every morsel from hand to mouth, like an expectant dog by a diner's chair.†   (source)
  • Only this time they were expecting a killing frenzy because there were four tasty morsels being served to the quig, not just one.†   (source)
  • His Adam's apple moved as he gulped, deprived of the morsel he was so desperate to have.†   (source)
  • The servant cooked the morsels in sesame oil, and the wonderful aroma made Wei laugh.†   (source)
  • Eleven of the students displayed an interest in learning little morsels or fragments of information for no other reason than just to know them.†   (source)
  • After the roots and leavings we had existed on, I was grateful enough for the food, but of what she bought Nathan would not touch a morsel.†   (source)
  • (He eats a morsel) You still make superlative custard, Alice.†   (source)
  • The morsels of food were accompanied by tongue touched to fingers and were as often offered between the lips.†   (source)
  • "I believe there must be a morsel of blueberry cake for such a smart pupil," praised Hannah.†   (source)
  • In its stomach, besides the morsel of dorado I had just given it, I found three small fish.†   (source)
  • Tariq reached to sample a morsel of veal cooked with potatoes.†   (source)
  • I no longer cared when she made fun of me, as I hurried to devour even the smallest morsel.†   (source)
  • The Baron picked up a sliver of meat, pressed the morsel into his mouth, chewed slowly, swallowed.†   (source)
  • I was so close that I could smell every morsel.†   (source)
  • The morsel of cake vanished in a twinkling.†   (source)
  • His head turned and he noticed the other morsel and the new object next to it.†   (source)
  • —but nothing could stop this thing that had begun with a morsel of food.†   (source)
  • He pushed another morsel of food in his mouth.†   (source)
  • Please, could you spare a morsel of bread?†   (source)
  • Just leave one special morsel for me—the one named Percy Jackson.†   (source)
  • Jon peeled off his gloves and ate with his fingers, sucking every morsel of meat off the bones.†   (source)
  • He ate a morsel and continued his journey, still southward, by many unfrequented lanes.†   (source)
  • A little old and stringy, but Cyclopes will pay well for a morsel like him.†   (source)
  • A morsel, nothing more …. but we shall feast before the fall of night!†   (source)
  • Grease and salt, with a morsel or two of meat.†   (source)
  • One fat lordling haunted the kitchens, Hot Pie told her, always looking for a morsel.†   (source)
  • "He choked on a morsel of food at his wedding feast," Davos said.†   (source)
  • I don't know when drop or morsel last passed my lips.†   (source)
  • I'm having every morsel of this divine party recorded.†   (source)
  • Still, a beggar must be grateful, if a thief returns him even a morsel of his own.†   (source)
  • We rise ere the Sun, and take a morsel in the grey light, and go to our duties at the opening hour.†   (source)
  • But take a morsel to eat now, a bit of the Elves' food; it may hearten you.'†   (source)
  • And then he had helped himself to big portions of the shrimp and snow peas, not realizing he should have taken only a polite spoonful, until everybody had had a morsel.†   (source)
  • Then, and only if I have completed all of my chores on time, and if I have not committed any "crimes, "I may be fed a morsel of food.†   (source)
  • I pointed to where the pigs had rooted around in the dirt and leaves, going after some choice morsel.†   (source)
  • My boy who had presided so skillfully over a boatload of sailors now hovered, watching like a dog, hoping for any morsel of forgiveness.†   (source)
  • The shadowcats would make a morsel of him, and the clans that dwelt in the mountain fastnesses were brigands and murderers who bowed to no law but the sword.†   (source)
  • From above, a flock of seagulls squawks at each other as the birds comb the beach in search of any morsel of food.†   (source)
  • The girl was looking back as if waiting for Mariam to pass on some morsel of wisdom, to say something encouraging-But what wisdom did Mariam have to offer?†   (source)
  • I'd try again and again, but no matter how hard I struggled, I could not taste a morsel of my fantasy.†   (source)
  • He could still taste the morsel she had fed him—bird flesh and grain bound with spice honey and encased in a leaf.†   (source)
  • "Mother and I didn't eat any of the sailor's body, not the smallest morsel, despite the cost in weakness to us, but we did start to eat what the cook caught from the sea.†   (source)
  • One day the maid pulls the sheet from its nest because she has decided to wash it, or the son jokingly pinches a morsel of food from its hands—over some such seemingly small matter, the pet flashes its teeth in anger and the family is frightened.†   (source)
  • 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."†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • They said a victim's face turned as purple as the little crystal seed from which his death was grown, but so too did a man choking on a morsel of food.†   (source)
  • The crowds swarmed onto the roads once again, pausing to clean out Caesar's restaurant of every morsel of food well before the dinner hour.†   (source)
  • Half of Lee's force has quit the war between Petersburg and this tiny depot, slinking into the woods to search for the slightest morsel of a meal and then not coming back.†   (source)
  • By late afternoon, he'd found only one edible morsel: a small cake about the size of his palm, still in its plastic wrapper, underneath an empty shelf in a gas station.†   (source)
  • As the final morsel of meat from the lizard's tail vanished down Sloan's gullet, Eragon handed him the other reptile, which was yet whole.†   (source)
  • By hand, putting each morsel of food into her mouth as carefully as if it were a hollow orb of glass that might shatter at any sudden movement.†   (source)
  • She stared at him so hard and so insistently that he responded to her as quickly as a trout would respond to a fat bug bobbing on the surface of a stream—though it was difficult to say which of these two was the trout and which the tender morsel.†   (source)
  • Moody's heavy tread sounded on the stairway and I rushed into the hall to meet him, ready to beg for any morsel of news about Mahtob.†   (source)
  • Lourdes devours every last morsel.†   (source)
  • When you look around Addis and see children barefoot and shivering in the rain, when you see the lepers begging for their next morsel, does any of that Monophysitic nonsense matter the least bit?†   (source)
  • They had opened King Joffrey's noble corpse as well, they swore, and found no morsel of pigeon pie nor any other food lodged in the royal throat.†   (source)
  • His voice was too powerful, too seductive; it left her wanting to do whatever he desired just so she could hear him utter a tiny morsel of praise.†   (source)
  • Extending a large, shaggy paw, the werecat hooked a piece of bread off Elva's plate and nibbled on the morsel, his white fangs flashing.†   (source)
  • During that awful period with Ghosh in jail, Almaz holding vigil outside prison, and the Emperor so distrustful of everyone that Lulu had to sniff every morsel of His Majesty's food, my olfactory brain, the feral intelligence, came awake.†   (source)
  • From time to time, King Renly would feed Margaery some choice morsel off the point of his dagger, or lean over to plant the lightest of kisses on her cheek, but it was Ser Loras who shared most of his jests and confidences.†   (source)
  • She examined the morsel of bread she was holding between her thumb and index finger, as one might inspect a strange species of insect, and then dipped it into a goblet of wine and popped the bread into her mouth.†   (source)
  • It was meant to appear as though he choked on a morsel of food, but I had his throat slit open and the maesters could find no obstruction.†   (source)
  • They would hiss and spit at each bloody morsel of horsemeat, steam rising from their nostrils, yet they would not take the food …. until Dany recalled something Viserys had told her when they were children.†   (source)
  • It was dull, rambling, and full of those go-go-get-'emget-'em epigrams concerning the critical need for every human being to live up to his highest potential and to squeeze every possible morsel of knowledge from the textbook.†   (source)
  • Powell continued on the same casual course, carefully turning the most shocking crime in seventy years into a morsel of unreality.†   (source)
  • They did not know the time, nor how long they had slept; but after a morsel of food and a sip of water they went on up the ravine, until it ended in a sharp slope of screes and sliding stones.†   (source)
  • She served the man first, offering him the most tender morsels, urging bite upon bite.†   (source)
  • Pushing his beak through the hole, he pulled out morsels of white and yoke.†   (source)
  • The quicker birds snatched morsels on the wing and gulped them down greedily.†   (source)
  • But when I held it, it looked shrunken, meant to spear up morsels at a feast and no more.†   (source)
  • I tossed hundreds of meerkat morsels at him that I would gladly have eaten myself.†   (source)
  • They offered him morsels from their lunches.†   (source)
  • Once she had fed him morsels of charred meat from her own hand.†   (source)
  • Which of these tasty morsels do you think is the special bait?†   (source)
  • "Yeah," says Cedric, offering up some choice morsels.†   (source)
  • Tyrion watched as her husband fed her morsels off his plate.†   (source)
  • And lose our tasty morsels?†   (source)
  • Mariam, who had never been inside a restaurant, found it odd at first to sit in a crowded room with so many strangers, to lift her burqa to put morsels of food into her mouth.†   (source)
  • Into the burning pot of my mouth I dropped raw pork, added chills and bean paste, stirred this up, then offered the morsels to people to taste.†   (source)
  • The leftover morsels of food in his plate (a dry red chili, and stiff angular brushes of sucked and spat-out drumsticks) rose and floated.†   (source)
  • I tore into the food even before I hugged them, but forced myself to stop so that we could all share the meager morsels.†   (source)
  • Those were the morsels of grief I ate.†   (source)
  • He filled his fist and tossed the raw red morsels into the cage, and the squawking and squabbling grew hotter.†   (source)
  • Mark grabbed three of them and shoved the delicious—beautifully delicious—morsels into his mouth.†   (source)
  • Brienne contented herself with fish and bread and carrots, whilst Septon Meribald fed two morsels to Dog for every one he ate himself.†   (source)
  • They arranged a pouch of seashells on her breast together with morsels of smoked fish and a few grains of corn.†   (source)
  • From soup to sweet Tommen burbled about the exploits of his kittens, whilst feeding them morsels of pike off his own royal plate.†   (source)
  • Ser Mark Mullendore brought a black-and-white monkey and fed him morsels from his own plate, while Ser Tanton of the red-apple Fossoways climbed on the table and swore to slay Sandor Clegane in single combat.†   (source)
  • He took a few morsels that he had saved to Shadowfax, and they were graciously accepted, though the horse seemed to have no lack.†   (source)
  • We could synthesize every morsel of food, if we wanted to.†   (source)
  • He remembered quite clearly that precious little morsel of chocolate.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung was a little comforted then and he ate a morsel and then more, and they all ate.†   (source)
  • As dainty a morsel as ever I grew fat on.†   (source)
  • I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum!"†   (source)
  • But I didn't say it, for I was looking there at the old man, who was leaning over with his spectacles hanging and his coat hanging and his belly hanging from the leaning, and who was holding out another morsel of chocolate and who was clucking soft, and whose own face was happy, for that was the word for what his face was, and as I looked at him I suddenly saw the man in the long white room by the sea, the same man but a different man, and the rain of the squall driving in off the sea…†   (source)
  • When she put a crust of bread between her lips, two doves hung in the air before her face, stirring their wings and pecking at the morsel.†   (source)
  • He stood there with closed eyes and an expression of rapture on his face, as if he were saying Grace, and then, with the absurdest sideways nibble, took the morsel so gently that he would not have broken a soap bubble.†   (source)
  • Dr Fujii hardly had time to think that he was dying before he realized that he was alive, squeezed tightly by two long timbers in a V across his chest, like a morsel suspended between two huge chopsticks — held upright, so that he could not move, with his head miraculously above water and his torso and legs in it.†   (source)
  • She saw Frank coming across the floor toward her with a glass of blackberry wine in his hand and a morsel of cake on a saucer and she pulled her face into a smile.†   (source)
  • 'I et polite,' she thinks, her hands lying upon the bundle, knowing the hidden coins, remembering the single cup of coffee, the decorous morsel of strange bread; thinking with a sort of serene pride: 'Like a lady I et.†   (source)
  • This was all a dream, this smoke-filled dim room, the scrawny girls, Mammy shapeless and huge crouching beside the bed, Dilcey a still bronze image with the sleeping pink morsel against her dark breast—all a dream from which she would awake, to smell bacon frying in the kitchen, hear the throaty laughter of the negroes and the creaking of wagons fieldward bound, and Ellen's gentle insistent hand upon her.†   (source)
  • Bilbo found himself answering, to his own surprise; and he found himself scuttling off, too, to the cellar to fill a pint beer-mug, and to the pantry to fetch two beautiful round seed-cakes which he had baked that afternoon for his after-supper morsel.†   (source)
  • …week when something within her drove Scarlett with mingled pain and pleasure to pack and cram every minute with incidents to remember after he was gone, happenings which she could examine at leisure in the long months ahead, extracting every morsel of comfort from them—dance, sing, laugh, fetch and carry for Ashley, anticipate his wants, smile when he smiles, be silent when he talks, follow him with your eyes so that each line of his erect body, each lift of his eyebrows, each quirk of…†   (source)
  • And in these verses of Chapelain I glide a lighter morsel.†   (source)
  • The poor morsel of food only whetted desire.†   (source)
  • She replied: "I don't feel as if I could touch a morsel."†   (source)
  • The portly gentlemen in the front rows began to feel that she was a delicious little morsel.†   (source)
  • He replaced the morsel of food on his plate and read the paragraph attentively.†   (source)
  • The boy's poor morsel of learning exalted him almost sky-high in her esteem.†   (source)
  • 'A little curry is good, and a fried cake, and a morsel of conserve would please him, I think.'†   (source)
  • 'To try me, eh?' said Rigaud, pausing, knife in hand and morsel in mouth.†   (source)
  • 'I couldn't eat a morsel,' replied his wife.†   (source)
  • Briggs was so much choked by emotion that she could hardly take a morsel of meat.†   (source)
  • There is not a morsel of an old letter or of any other writing in either.†   (source)
  • One morsel's as good as another when your mouth's out o' taste.†   (source)
  • It might have wailed out of life, and nobody cared a morsel, during those first hours of existence.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we may even strike a beaver, and get a morsel from his tail[*] by way of a rare mouthful.†   (source)
  • You shanna have a morsel o' cake if you behave so."†   (source)
  • In an hour—time to eat a morsel, during which I shall send for a post horse.†   (source)
  • And you won't mind things going a tiny morsel wrong, sometimes?'†   (source)
  • "Just a morsel, and a taste of cheese, that's all."†   (source)
  • "Oh, you greedy thing!" said Tom, when she had swallowed the last morsel.†   (source)
  • I can take a morsel of dinner standing and be off.†   (source)
  • Sergeant, I was no more to her than a morsel of scroff in the fuel-house!†   (source)
  • They recognized the fact, that what they had before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat.†   (source)
  • 'Stan' still,' said the Yorkshireman, 'and doant'ee speak a morsel o' talk till I tell'ee.'†   (source)
  • The penny would be an awkward morsel—but the crown—ha! ha!'†   (source)
  • Then a morsel of snow flew across the river towards the fifth window.†   (source)
  • Give the word, and I'll sell off every morsel.†   (source)
  • Nerved by an active resolution, Adam took a morsel of bread and drank some wine.†   (source)
  • "I want a night's shelter in an out-house or anywhere, and a morsel of bread to eat."†   (source)
  • How permanently it was imprinted upon his vision; that look of her as she glided into the parlour to tea; a slim flexible figure; a face, strained from its roundness, and marked by the pallors of restless days and nights, suggesting tragic possibilities quite at variance with her times of buoyancy; a trying of this morsel and that, and an inability to eat either.†   (source)
  • And soon, mechanically, weary after a dull day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake.†   (source)
  • "Where are you going?" asked Edna, seeing that her husband arose from table without having eaten a morsel except a taste of the highly-seasoned soup.†   (source)
  • Pain came over him in spasms, as if it was physical, and even while he was about to eat, his eyes would fill with tears, and he would lay down the morsel untasted.†   (source)
  • This second morsel, as I watched her, she was very markedly and intently attempting to tighten in its place.†   (source)
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