English Lit - Christmas Carol

• Stave 1:Marley was dead: -------.'


  to begin with
• Stave 1:He was a ----------- hand at the grindstone, Scrooge!'


  tight-fisted
• Stave 1:'Hard and sharp ---------.'


  as flint
• Stave 1:'Solitary as --------.'


  an oyster
• Stave 1:'External heat and cold had -------------- on Scrooge.'


  little influence
• Stave 1:'"Are there no -----------?" asked Scrooge.'


  prisons
• Stave 1:'"If they would rather die... they had better do it, and ------------------------------------.'"


  decrease the surplus population.'"
• Stave 1:'"I wear the chain I ---------in life."


  forged
• Stave 1:"-------- was my business."'


  Mankind
• Stave 1:'He tried to say, ------------' but stopped at the first syllable.'

  Humbug
• Stave 2:'It was a strange figure - like a child: ------------------------- as like an old man.'


  yet not so like a child
• Stave 2:- 'Scrooge... found himself face to face with the ------------- visitor...'

  unearthly
• Stave 2:- 'From the crown of its head there sprung a -------------------------


  bright clear jet of light
• Stave 2:'"Your lip is trembling," said the Ghost. "And what is that ------------------?"'


  upon your cheek
• Stave 2:'"The school is not quite deserted... ---------------- neglected by his friends, is left there still."'


  a solitary child
• Stave 2:'"Father is so much kinder than he used to be, that -------------------------

  homes like heaven
• Stave 2:) - '"Another -------------------- me."' (Belle)

  idol has displaced
• Stave 2:He seized the extinguisher-cap, and by sudden action pressed it -------------------


  down upon it's head
• Stave 3:there sat a ---------------, glorious to see;

  jolly Giant
• Stave 3:'Its dark brown curls were long and free: free as its ----------, its sparkling eye, its open hand.'


  genial face
• Stave 3:'Then up rose Mrs Cratchit, Cratchit's wife... ---------------'


  brave in ribbons
• Stave 3:"'If these shadows remain ----------------------, the child will die.'"


  unaltered by the Future
• Stave 3:'"-----------? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."'


  What then
• Stave 3:They were a boy and girl. ---------------- scowling, wolfish: but prostrate, too, in their humility.'


  yellow,meagre,ragged
• Stave 3:. This boy is ------------. This girl is ----------. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom."'


  Ignorance,want
• Stave 4:The Phantom slowly, --------------------- approached.'


  gravely,silently
• Stave 4:- 'It was ----------- in a deep black garment, which concealed its head,


  shrouded
• Stave 4:- 'Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs ---------------------


  trembled beneath him
• Stave 4:"I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man -------------"'


  might be my own
• Stave 4:"'I will ---------------------------------- and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone."'


  honour christmas in my heart
• Stave 4:'"Let me see some -------------- connected with a death."'


  tenderness
• Stave 5:'He had been sobbing violently in his conflict with the Spirit, and his face was ------------------.'


  wet with tears
• Stave 5:'"I am -----------------, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy."'


  as light as a feather
• Stave 5:"'I'll ------------, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon."'

  raise your salary
• Stave 5:'Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and -------------.'


  infinitely more
• Stave 5:'And so, as Tiny Tim observed, ----------------Every One!'


  God bless us
• Stave 5:He knew how to keep -------------'


  Christmas well