quotes

• "they were happy and grateful, pleased with one another"
• "nobody said or thought that it was at all a small pudding for a large family"
• "a positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig's calves"
• "is quite as great as if it cost a fortune" (Fezziwig's party)
• "skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility"
• "throne of turkey, geese, poultry, game"
• "squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner"
• "a stale and shrivelled hand like that of age … pinched … twisted …pulled them to shreds"
• "concealed its head, it’s face, it’s form"
• "i may sponge away the writing on this stone"
• "long and wound about him like a tail"
• "sprung a clear bright jet of light"
• "unwatched, unwept, uncared for"
• "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel"
• "twice the size of tiny tim"
• "have they no refuge or resource?"
• "are there no prisons? are there no workhouses?"
• "your faithful friend and servant"
• "haunt your house pleasantly"
• "had the lightest license of a child and been man enough to know its value"
• "not so quite like a child as an old man"
• "he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again"
•  "as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"
• "as merry as a schoolboy"
• "open their shut-up hearts freely"
• "never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
• "boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart"
• "it was shrouded in a deep black garment."
• "slowly, gravely, silently, approached"
• "scrooge bent down upon his knee"
• "the kind hand trembled"
• "i'm quite a baby. never mind. i don't care. i'd rather be a baby"
• "hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones"
• "If he had been [natural], he’d have had somebody to look after him...instead of lying, gasping out his last there, alone by himself"
• "an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before"
• "why show me this, if I am past all hope?"
• "Scrooge was the Ogre of the family"
• "the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled"
• "meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links"
• "no fog, no mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold"