He could remember in childhood's merry days the old candy-woman, with her plentiful store of brown sweetness long drawn out; and how himself and companions spent many a pleasant hour teasing their little teeth with the delicate morsels.

I had like to have forgot thanking you for that exquisite little morsel, the first Sclavonian Song.

Sounds euphonious, and I verily believe the old gentleman has begun to roll it like a sweet morsel under his tongue.

" "Yes, I always did like attics," said Laura, adding, as she swallowed a delicious morsel: "

However, as I was so far from being a tempting morsel, I was allowed to wander about freely, and one day, when all the blacks had gone off upon some expedition leaving only an old man to guard me, I managed to escape from him and plunged into the forest, running faster the more he cried to me to come back, until I had completely distanced him.

As I hadn't had the supper I stood considerably in need of, I took the liberty of taking a few savory morsels from the meatpot, which I ate in the midst of a little knot of wondering spectators; I then laid myself down to sleep on the bench beside the table, to which a second set of diners were already sitting down.

Weyman noted that, and each day he tempted her with the choicest morsels of deer and moose fat.

They were quivering with excitement over what promised to be, from a newspaper standpoint, the juiciest morsel of sensational copy with which the city had been blessed for some time.

I had like to have forgot thanking you for that exquisite little morsel, the first Sclavonian Song.

He opened his hands and there lay the tiniest morsel of a fox terrier puppy that I ever saw.

She did not appear burdened with any refined manners, but, judge of my astonishment when, after she had got quit of her soup-plate and was waiting for her next helping, I observed the lady poking the point of her knife into a sweet dish near her, and sucking off the precious morsel she had captured, which interesting operation she kept repeating till her roast turkey arrived.

I confess they were not more puzzled than I was to account for the mysterious combination; the only solution whereof which presented itself to my mind, was the supposition that power has the same influence on public men that lollipops have on the juvenile population, and that the one and the other are ready to sacrifice a great deal to obtain possession of the luscious morsel.

" "I'm too tough a morsel," Blake answered with a laugh.

The eye, and the flesh round, are favourite morsels with many, and should be given to those at the table who are known to be the greatest connoisseurs.

After food had been distributed, when anything was left, you saw some of them rush to the neighbourhood of the kitchens; hustled and beaten by the sentries, these unfortunates risked blows and abuse to try and pick up some additional morsels of the sickening food.

" It is tempting to linger over such a delectable morsel as this, for even if it is only the absurd and irresponsible output of one poor, foolish man, it does express more or less what industrial civilization holds to be true, though few would avow their faith so whole-heartedly.

The fellow has snatched away a fine fat morsel from my very mouth.

Swallowing a hasty morsel of toast and a cup of coffee, we mounted our ponies, sent our guns on ahead, and rode off for the village where the rhinoceros was reported.

And then there was no woman in it to take care of us, and we were only little mites of babiespoor, crying, helpless morsels of humanity.

252 So these but wait the owners' last despair, And what's permitted to the flames invade; Even from their jaws they hungry morsels tear, And on their backs the spoils of Vulcan lade.

The tax collector has eat me upeat me up, I say, eat me up!" He looked such an indigestible morsel, so obviously unfit for the maw of even a tax collector, that I laughed and took my leave.

I think of these facts and think of Baudelaire's prose poem, that poem in which he tells how a dog will run away howling if you hold to him a bottle of choice scent, but if you offer him some putrid morsel picked out of some gutter hole, he will sniff round it joyfully, and will seek to lick your hand for gratitude.

From the point of view of human happiness, fame is, surely, nothing but a very rare and delicate morsel for the appetite that feeds on pride and vanityan appetite which, however carefully concealed, exists to an immoderate degree in every man, and is, perhaps strongest of all in those who set their hearts on becoming famous at any cost.

"The heathen savage would have given him to eat of his scanty morsel, and to drink of his birchen cup; but Christian men, alas!

" Considerably cheered by this last intelligence, Migwan sped home and got her prune dessert into the oven and then set to work transforming the tough steak into a tender morsel.