key qoutes

• ‘hard and sharp as flint’
• ‘as solitary as an oyster’
• ‘cold’ ‘froze’ ‘blue’ ‘frosty’
• ‘are there no prisons? ‘
• ‘decrease the surplus population’
• ‘ponderous chain’
• ‘mankind was my buisness’
• ‘would you so soon put out, with worldly hands, the light I give?’
• ‘a solitary child, neglected’
• ‘a lonley boy near a feeble fire’
• ‘a spring time in the haggard winter of his life’
• ‘jolly giant’
• ‘glowing torch’
• ‘open hand’
• ‘as good as gold’
• ‘he begged like a boy to be allowed to stay’
• ‘at home in five mintues’
• ‘yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish’
• ‘the phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached‘
• ‘unwashed, unwept, uncared for’
• ‘lighted cheerfully’
• ‘oh tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!’
• ’as merry as a schoolboy’
• ‘as light as a feather’
• ‘like one coal’
• ‘make up the fires’
• ‘and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father’
• ‘the treadmill and poor law are in full vigour, then?’
• ‘reeked with crime, with filth and misery’
• ‘it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family’