Little Classics, Volume 5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - Literature |
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... looked like one coal . But he could n't replenish it , for Scrooge kept the coal - box in his own room ; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part . Wherefore the ...
... looked like one coal . But he could n't replenish it , for Scrooge kept the coal - box in his own room ; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part . Wherefore the ...
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... looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look , - with ghostly spectacles turned up upon its ghostly fore- head . - As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon , it was a knocker again . He said , " Pooh , pooh ! " and closed the door with ...
... looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look , - with ghostly spectacles turned up upon its ghostly fore- head . - As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon , it was a knocker again . He said , " Pooh , pooh ! " and closed the door with ...
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... looked , he saw this bell begin to swing . Soon it rang out loudly , and so did every bell in the house . This was succeeded by a clanking noise , deep down below , as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the ...
... looked , he saw this bell begin to swing . Soon it rang out loudly , and so did every bell in the house . This was succeeded by a clanking noise , deep down below , as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the ...
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... looked the phantom through and through , and saw it standing before him , though he felt the chilling in- fluence of its death - cold eyes , and noticed the very tex- ture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin , - he was ...
... looked the phantom through and through , and saw it standing before him , though he felt the chilling in- fluence of its death - cold eyes , and noticed the very tex- ture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin , - he was ...
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... looked up at the clock , which pointed to the hour of seven . He rubbed his hands ; adjusted his capacious waistcoat ; laughed all over himself , from his shoes to his organ of benevolence ; and called out in a comfortable , oily , rich ...
... looked up at the clock , which pointed to the hour of seven . He rubbed his hands ; adjusted his capacious waistcoat ; laughed all over himself , from his shoes to his organ of benevolence ; and called out in a comfortable , oily , rich ...
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Page 7 - MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
Page 91 - See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood ? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these sins he is happily snatched away — lt Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care...
Page 35 - There was nothing of high mark in this. They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbrokers.
Page 9 - ... not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will...
Page 33 - I wish I had him here. I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it.
Page 32 - A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Page 32 - Oh, a wonderful pudding ! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage.
Page 87 - You graceless whelp, what have you got there devouring ? Is it not enough that you have burnt me down three houses with your dog's tricks, and be hanged to you ! but you must be eating fire, and I know not what ? What have you got there, I say F " " O father, the pig, the pig ! do come and taste how nice the burnt pig eats.
Page 28 - And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own ; and, basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies', while he (not proud, although his...
Page 37 - After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.