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  • noun Plural form of morsel.

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Examples

  • Sitting out in the sun eating those spicy morsels is what dreams are made of.

    Korean-Fried-Chicken-Palooza: Kyochon vs. Bon Chon vs. Mad For Chicken | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan 2010

  • The plot is simply marvelous, replete with interesting characters and fascinating morsels from the world of computer engineering.

    An Interview with J.R. Lankford 2010

  • In a quite untypical fit of largesse the wine-seller who lived downstairs had made available a few dozen bottles of his best wine, and the women, fretting and fussing but as always anxiously concerned with physical sustenance and comfort, filled their sewing-baskets with tasty morsels from the pantry.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • In a quite untypical fit of largesse the wine-seller who lived downstairs had made available a few dozen bottles of his best wine, and the women, fretting and fussing but as always anxiously concerned with physical sustenance and comfort, filled their sewing-baskets with tasty morsels from the pantry.

    The Great Round Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Some houses have become nearly uninhabitable – glass, pictures, clocks, plaster, all lying in morsels about the floor, and air-holes in the roofs and walls, through which these winged messengers of destruction have passed.

    Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843

  • When Zak’s dish came moments later, we both dug in, cupping our small rice bowls in our off-hands while plucking morsels from the central platters with our chopsticks.

    Tigers & Strawberries » Yin and Yang 2005

  • Romance novels used to be tidy little 60,000-word morsels, and now they are Vast.

    Bloat Walter Jon Williams 2009

  • I recently tried a recipe that called for that fakiest of fake products, butterscotch "morsels".

    Look at me, I'm Sandra Lee aka TBTAM 2008

  • Curious, however, after reading this announcement, to see what kind of morsels were so carefully preserved, I turned a few leaves, and found them scrawled all over with the vilest and the filthiest ribaldry that ever human hogs delighted in.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • Curious, however, after reading this announcement, to see what kind of morsels were so carefully preserved, I turned a few leaves, and found them scrawled all over with the vilest and the filthiest ribaldry that ever human hogs delighted in.

    American Notes 1842

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