morsel

Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.

The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel.

Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.

Ah, those gentlemen never choose the worst morsels; like Mère Simon’s son, who has not chosen the worst strawberries.