A Christmas Carol

• 'Secret, Self contained and solitary as an Oyster' - Stave 1
• 'Hard and sharp as a flint, from winch no steel had ever struck out generous fire' Stave 1
• 'The cold within him froze his old features[...] he carried his own low temperature always about with him' - Stave 1
• 'Cold, bleak, biting weather' - Stave 1
• 'He had so heated himself [...] he was all a glow' - Stave 1
• 'What reason have you to be merry? Your poor enough' - Scrooge, Stave 1
• 'What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough'

  - Fred, Stave 1
• 'To edge his way along the crowded path of life' - Stave 1
• 'I cant afford to make idle people merry' - Scrooge, Stave 1
• 'If they would rather die [...] They had better do it and decrease the surplus population' - Scrooge, Stave 1
• 'Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened' - Stave 1
• 'A kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time' - Stave 1
• 'Melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern' - Stave 1
• 'Darkness was cheap, and scrooge liked it' - Stave 1
• 'It was a very low fire indeed' - Stave 1
• 'I wear the chains i forged in life' - Marleys ghost, Stave 1
• 'I wear the chains i forged in life' - Marleys Ghost, stave 1
• 'It is a ponderous chain!' - Marleys ghost, stave 1
• 'The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business' - Marleys ghost, stave 1
• 'He tried to say "Humbug" but stopped at the first syllable' - Stave 1
• 'Like a child [...] like an old man' - Stave 2
• 'Long and muscular [...] delicately formed' - Stave 2
• 'Father is so much kinder than he used to be' - Fan, stave 2
• 'Always a delicate creature [...] but she has a large heart' - Gpast, stave 2
• 'Rich, fat jovial voice' - Fezziwig, stave 2
• 'The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it costs a fortune' - Fezziwig, stave 2
• 'Fuel was heaped upon the fire' - Fezziwigs, Stave 2
• 'I should like to say a word or two to my clerk just now' - Scrooge, stave 2
• 'Another idle has displaced me [...] a golden one' - Belle, stave 2
• 'There is nothing on winch is so hard as poverty' - scrooge, stave 2
• 'and been a spring time in the haggard winter of his life' - stave 2
• 'Positive light' 'They shone in every part of the dance like moons' - Fezziwig, stave 2
• 'You were another man' - Belle, stave 2
• 'What is that upon your cheek? [...] a pimple' - scrooge, stave 2
• 'an antique scabbard; but no sword was in it' - Gpresent, stave 3
• 'ancient sheath was eaten up with rust' - Gpresent, stave 3
• 'To a poor one most [...] because it needs it most' - Gpresent, stave 3
• 'If you had ought to teach me let me profit by it' - scrooge, stave 3
• 'It was a sufficient dinner for the whole family' - crattchits, stave 3
• 'in what Bob cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one' - Cratchits, stave 3