Both Uses
morsel
in
Middlemarch
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- Follows here the strict receipt For that sauce to dainty meat, Named Idleness, which many eat By preference, and call it sweet: First watch for morsels, like a hound Mix well with buffets, stir them round With good thick oil of flatteries, And froth with mean self-lauding lies.†
Chpt 2
- I will back this ham," he added, after swallowing some morsels with alarming haste, "against any ham in the three kingdoms.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(morsel) a very small quantity -- usually of food
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)