A Christmas Carol

• "dead as a doornail
• "never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket"
• "they'd better do it, and decrease the surplus population"
• "a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, spraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner"
• "as solitary as an oyster"
• "why do you delight to torture me"
• "jolly giant"
• "ghostly eyes fixed upon him"
• "what reason have you to be merry? you are poor enough"
• "what reason have you to be dismal? you are rich enough"
• "yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish"
• "i cannot rest, i cannot stay, i cannot linger anywhere"
• "this is ignorant. this is want. beware them both"
• "another idle has replaced me. a golden one"
• "a solitary child neglected by his friends, is left there still"