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Example sentences for "morsels"

Lexicographically close words:
morrowe; morrowed; morrows; mors; morsel; morses; mort; morta; mortal; mortale
  1. Then Carnally broke into a harsh laugh as he laid three morsels of pork in the frying-pan and took out a very small bannock baked the previous night.

  2. When they had eaten the few morsels he allowed them they sat smoking beside the fire.

  3. His flowers are the morsels of chickweed, the two or three dwindling blades of grass, or the dank green moss, that shoot up beside the damp wall, or between the fissures of the pavement.

  4. As for the other, I could still relieve it; some morsels were in my pocket.

  5. The last morsels I had eaten had produced this effect.

  6. The scorching flames climb round on every side; Then the singed members they with skill divide; On these, in rolls of fat involved with art, The choicest morsels lay from every part.

  7. The mad pushing, the slashing and rending of each other as all fought for the choice morsels of dead flesh!

  8. Then, appeared a platter of fish; and the same functionary, carefully removing the bones with his fingers, and blowing on the morsels to cool them, placed them in the mouths of the two Frenchmen.

  9. That he shall have three morsels of barley bread a day, and that he shall have the water next the prison, so that it be not current, and that he shall not eat," etc.

  10. The carcasses of the victims being brought to them, they dipped cane-leaves into the salt water and sprinkled the faces of them therewith, and into each mouth they put four morsels of bread moistened with the gruel or mess above-mentioned.

  11. They cut also a joint from a green maize-stalk, stuffed the little tube with morsels of every kind of the above-mentioned food, and set it carefully on the back of the frog.

  12. Whoever hears his terrible voice falls like one smitten, and his curved claws rend a prey into morsels with a single stroke.

  13. She should be accustomed to the sight of the hood, and have often been allowed to pick nice little morsels of meat from the outside of it.

  14. For during the long process of carrying you will want to give your goshawk plenty of hard morsels to pull at; and none but the toughest will withstand for long the attacks of her sharp-pointed beak.

  15. If they have come far, a few morsels of food may be given even before the new-comer has been deposited in the second hamper.

  16. Reserve your attentions with the stick for the time when she will be busy discussing the more succulent morsels in the menu, and when she is more likely to submit, without much protest, to the indignity of being stroked.

  17. Another most valuable use of these tough morsels has been already referred to.

  18. After a few morsels have been distributed, these lures can be thrown down for all the hawks except one, which may finish her meal on the fist.

  19. If care has been taken from the very first not to alarm them, they may possibly take the morsels of meat quietly and naturally, when offered to them gently on the end of a small stick.

  20. No string of substitute heirs of entail, as empty and unsubstantial as the morsels of paper strung to the train of a boy's kite, to cumber my flights of inclination, and my humours of predilection.

  21. The parents must feed their child with morsels suitable to his age, with the "milk of the word" at first, afterwards with strong meat.

  22. And if you have really collected the candle-ends and the faggots and the morsels of coal, why, perhaps we 'll succeed.

  23. Leucha was supported in bed by Hollyhock, who was feeding her with morsels of choice and nourishing food, and was talking to her in the gentlest and most soothing way.

  24. It consists, as you know, in this, that if two morsels of ice be brought into contact in water, which may be even warm, they freeze together.

  25. The ice morsels did so, and immediately regelation again set in.

  26. Thus the peach-trees of the garden will not only furnish some of the most delicious morsels of the year, but also a very agreeable and light phase of labor.

  27. Eggplants are choice morsels for the potato- beetle, and they must be watched vigilantly if we would save them.

  28. Gleaning a few more coarse morsels on the ground so often searched, she tottered back to the spot which still seemed home though naught of home was there.

  29. The coarse morsels which she gave them seemed for the moment to quiet their cravings, and the strange sight of their home in ruins diverted their minds.

  30. On these, in double cauls involved with art, The choicest morsels lie from every part, From the cleft wood the crackling flames aspires While the fat victims feed the sacred fire.

  31. Bitter morsels nourish the soul, not less perhaps than sweet.

  32. Now, darling, this is perfectly hateful of me to turn and snarl at the hand which has just been putting good morsels into my mouth.

  33. Occasionally he pushes a little Latin into his discourses and at intervals be graces them with morsels of Greek.

  34. There they would rest a few moments, take a look round, then fly to some favourite spot where succulent morsels had been picked up on previous visits.

  35. And this bacon is never warm, but laid upon a slice of bread in a thin, cold layer, instead of butter, both being cut down through with a jack-knife into morsels when eaten.

  36. Not one of the little, irregular morsels of land half swallowed by its broad-bottomed hedging, which one sees so frequently in an English landscape, could be found on this great holding.

  37. And so I saw her with the salt-box, savouring his stirabout so that it should be seasoned to his liking, and, with the cone of sugar, chip such morsels with her knife as he might mumble when he chose.

  38. Neither Childe Harold, nor any of the most beautiful of Byron's earlier tales, contain more exquisite morsels of poetry than are to be found scattered through the cantos of Don Juan.

  39. The Vicar of Wakefield he calls "one of the most delicious morsels of fictitious composition on which the human mind was ever employed.


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