All 9 Uses of
morsel
in
Jane Eyre
- He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near.†
p. 12.7 *morsel = a very small quantity
- The remains of my breakfast of bread and milk stood on the table, and having crumbled a morsel of roll, I was tugging at the sash to put out the crumbs on the windowsill, when Bessie came running upstairs into the nursery.†
p. 37.7
- Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.†
p. 71.8
- Having invited Helen and me to approach the table, and placed before each of us a cup of tea with one delicious but thin morsel of toast, she got up, unlocked a drawer, and taking from it a parcel wrapped in paper, disclosed presently to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake.†
p. 86.2
- Just a morsel, and a taste of cheese, that's all.†
p. 181.4
- Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.†
p. 272.9
- and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup?†
p. 292.6
- I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny — my last coin.†
p. 372.9
- I want a night's shelter in an out-house or anywhere, and a morsel of bread to eat.†
p. 385.1
Definition:
a very small quantity -- usually of food