Little Classics, Volume 5Rossiter Johnson Houghton, Mifflin, 1874 - Literature |
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... great light there , had undergone a surprising trans- formation . The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green , that it looked a perfect grove . The leaves of holly , mistletoe , and ivy reflected back the 26 LITTLE CLASSICS .
... great light there , had undergone a surprising trans- formation . The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green , that it looked a perfect grove . The leaves of holly , mistletoe , and ivy reflected back the 26 LITTLE CLASSICS .
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... looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars , as if he were deliberating what particular invest- ments he should favor when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income . Martha , who was a poor ap- prentice at a ...
... looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars , as if he were deliberating what particular invest- ments he should favor when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income . Martha , who was a poor ap- prentice at a ...
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... looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at part- ing , Scrooge had his eye upon them , and especially on Tiny Tim , until the last . It was a great surprise to Scrooge , as this scene van- ished , to hear a ...
... looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at part- ing , Scrooge had his eye upon them , and especially on Tiny Tim , until the last . It was a great surprise to Scrooge , as this scene van- ished , to hear a ...
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... looked about him for the Ghost , and saw it no more . As the last stroke ceased to vibrate , he re- membered the prediction of old Jacob Marley , and , lift- ing up his eyes , beheld a solemn Phantom , draped and hooded , coming like a ...
... looked about him for the Ghost , and saw it no more . As the last stroke ceased to vibrate , he re- membered the prediction of old Jacob Marley , and , lift- ing up his eyes , beheld a solemn Phantom , draped and hooded , coming like a ...
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... looked about in that very place for his own image ; but another man stood in his accustomed corner , and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there , he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured ...
... looked about in that very place for his own image ; but another man stood in his accustomed corner , and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there , he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured ...
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asked began bless Bo-bo Bob Cratchit boots called candle Christmas day Christmas eve cried crust Dan Harroway dark dear door exclaimed eyes face father fellow felt fire Gadshill-in-the-Fields Geoffrey Gunn Ghost girl hand happy Harroway head hear heard heart Inmate Jacob Marley Jerry Rouse Jerry's Kenmare knees knew Lafarge laughed live looked Marley marriage master Mercy merry Christmas mind misery Miss Moriarty morning Nance Nash Navity Neal Malone Neal's never night O'Connor passed Pickersgill plase your honor poor round towers schoolmaster Scrooge Scrooge's nephew seemed shake singin Smilish Spirit stairs stood story sure sure as fate tailor tell there's thing thought Tibbot O'Leary Tiny Tiny Tim told Tom Nash took total depravity turned Uncle Scrooge Varuna walked wife woman word young Cratchits
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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.