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Example sentences for "morsel"

Lexicographically close words:
morrow; morrowe; morrowed; morrows; mors; morsels; morses; mort; morta; mortal
  1. His secretary, however, ignored the tempting morsel and swam away into the deeps of romantic drama where his munificence seemed less showy somehow.

  2. John, forgetting he had already dipped twice in mustard the morsel of beef upon his fork, dipped it again, so that his eyes presently filled with tears, to which the observant Harold called everybody's attention.

  3. That was gone, and whence was their next morsel to come?

  4. Of the tender calf, not a morsel remained beyond a few tufts of hairy skin, and the cow was so badly torn and mutilated that she was not worth cutting up!

  5. It does not always moisten its morsel thus, but pretty generally.

  6. A party went to look for the remains of the buffalo-bull killed by the guides, but returned without a morsel of meat.

  7. In consequence of this, he usually reaches the surface in a state of half-blindness, holding the luscious morsel in his bill.

  8. Joel, he used to eat about four heapin’ plates of beans, an’ then he’d complain because every little morsel he put into his stummick disagreed with him.

  9. Dean Buckland popped the kingly morsel into his mouth, and swallowed it.

  10. Such was our plight the Eve of the Day of Atonement, and not a morsel of bread to 'take in' the fast with!

  11. I said, weeping: 'My children are perishing for a morsel of bread.

  12. She had made a vow never to taste meat, either cooked or raw, and ate only a crust of bread a day; but on great feast days she would add thereto a morsel of salt fish, without any sauce.

  13. He fell into a state of melancholy, frequented no bad places, and only with regret now and then did he take a bite at his royal and dainty German morsel Isabella.

  14. And yet Tyerman says that in 1752 the Moravian Church was "a luscious morsel of Antinomian poison.

  15. For a while the Brethren were robbed of this morsel of comfort.

  16. For beads he would sacrifice his only garment and his last morsel of food.

  17. With the peculiar half laugh of the squaw, Sacajawea brought a morsel that she had saved for the child all the way from the Mandan towns, but now it was wet and beginning to sour.

  18. So while the fellows are finishing my toilet, I may as well tell you my morsel of news.

  19. Devil the morsel of good in them," rejoined Blarden.

  20. If any one touched a morsel of that sacred timber he should be banished from Bragton for ever.

  21. Since that I have been much interested with an attempt,--a further morsel of cobbling, which is being done to improve the representation of the people.

  22. It was still daylight, but the light was dim and the last morsel of the grandeur of the sun had ceased to be visible through the trees.

  23. I couldn't have ate a morsel of breakfast if I knew I wasn't to see another bit of food for four-and-twenty hours.

  24. Mrs. Stanbury, the widow of the late vicar, lived in a little morsel of a cottage on the outskirts of the village, with her two daughters, Priscilla and Dorothy.

  25. But it contained one morsel of strange information; "Lady Milborough is going with me.

  26. He was sitting at a wretched little table on which there was nothing but a morsel of blotting paper, a small ink-bottle, and the paper on which he was scribbling.

  27. Of course there would be a little morsel of a bonnet.

  28. Joe drew aside his jacket, and disclosed to the children's delighted eyes the sweetest little round fuzzy ball of black fluff, just like a tiny woolly bear, with tan chest and paws, and a wagging morsel of a tail like a black tassel.

  29. On one occasion for sixty hours we had not a morsel to eat.

  30. On coming up to us they sank upon the ground, uttering the words, 'A morsel of bread, a morsel of bread!

  31. A plain–looking woman was at the door, and Jack accosted her, begging she would give him a morsel of bread and a night’s lodging.

  32. Having refreshed themselves with a small morsel of meat, they laid them down to rest, and in the morning Jack arose and put on his invisible coat, cap of knowledge, and shoes of swiftness, and so prepares himself for the dangerous enterprises.

  33. On the way into the forest Hansel crumbled his in his pocket, and often threw a morsel on the ground until little by little, he had thrown all the crumbs on the path.

  34. Then there is another little morsel of possible evidence which may just be noticed.

  35. Are you so isolated from all mankind as that any gift which He bestows on you is to be treated by you as a morsel that you can take into your corner and devour, like a grudging dog, by yourselves?

  36. But the silence was only broken by the cheeping of sparrows outside the round window, and the sound of the horse, Hal, munching the last morsel of his carrot.

  37. Tom Gaunt stayed the morsel in one cheek and fixed her with his little, wild boar's eye.

  38. I get Army rations," said the Major, holding a morsel of fillet of beef towards Blink.

  39. The dissipated digger ate half a chop and a morsel of bread and, when the tea was ready, he drank a cupful thirstily.

  40. Then forth they led Melanthius, and began Their bloody work; they lopp'd away the man, Morsel for dogs!

  41. This is the judgment of the renewed mind; and any other judgment is only that of "a profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

  42. Then the Jew, in an agony of impatience, watched every morsel he put into his mouth; pacing up and down the room, meanwhile, in irrepressible excitement.

  43. They made room for the stranger, but he sat down in the furthest corner, and ate and drank alone, or rather with his dog: to whom he cast a morsel of food from time to time.

  44. The summons not being answered as expeditiously as he desired, he called again, and Jacob made his appearance brushing the moisture from his lips, and trying to swallow down a huge morsel that stuck in his throat.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "morsel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.