Both Uses
morsel
in
Washington Square, by Henry James
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- She had been sitting with her niece in the evening; only on this occasion, as the night was not so warm, the lamp had been lighted, and Catherine had placed herself near it with a morsel of fancy-work.†
Chpt 35morsel = a very small quantity
- Catherine, meanwhile, in the parlour, picking up her morsel of fancy work, had seated herself with it again—for life, as it were.†
Chpt 35 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(morsel) a very small quantity -- usually of food
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)