Citations:morsel

Noun: "a very small amount"

 * 1879 — Martha Louise Rayne, Fallen Among Thieves: A Summer Tour, G. W. Carleton & Co. Publishers (1879), page 153:
 * The manager had long since outgrown sympathy in business matters, but he did not dismiss them curtly, he could not, when he saw the flush of hope on the sunken cheek, or the gleam of despair in the restless eyes, so he sent them away kindly, leaving them a morsel of hope for the future.
 * 1896 — Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, A Knight of the Nets, Dodd, Mead and Company (1896), page 53:
 * "Never you mind. There is nothing wrong to it. You may trust me for that, Christina. I was fairly worn out, and Aunt hasn't a morsel of pity. She thinks I ought to be glad to sew from Monday morning to Saturday night, and I tell you it hurts me, and gives me a cough, and I had to get a breath of sea-air or die for it. So a friend gave me what I wanted."
 * 1995 — Teresa Medeiros, Fairest of Them All, Bantam Books (1995), ISBN 0553563335, page 50:
 * "Such boldness! Such brazen vanity! Saucy wench hadn't a morsel of sense. Too foolish to shrink from an armed knight in a deserted garden, yet sniveled like an infant when I laid my blade to her precious hair."
 * 2008 — Pamela Griffin, New York Brides, Barbour Publishing Inc. (2008), ISBN 9781597899840, page 70:
 * Didn't even a morsel of decency remain in his brother?
 * 2011 — Stephen Hunter, Soft Target, Simon & Schuster (2011), ISBN 9781439138700, page 145:
 * Six dead guys. Wrong place, wrong time, fellows, the way of the universe. He felt not a morsel of pity for them and — this was his gift or something — could not imagine them as men of families, with lives, relatives, kids, histories, contributions.