English A Christmas Carol

• "Marley was dead: to begin with.": '"Marley was as dead as a doomall"'
• Scrooge


  Hard and sharp as flint, solitary as an oyster, external heat and cold had little influence on him
• It was cold, bleak, biting weather and the fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole
• At the ominous word "liberality", Scrooge frowned
• Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened
• Piercing, searching, biting cold
• There was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door
• The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power for ever.
• He tried to say, 'Humbug!' but stopped at the first syllable.
• Was it a dream or not?
• There are some upon this earth of yours... who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name...
• It was a sufficient dinner for the whole family.
• It's likely to be a very cheap funeral.
• Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.
• Before that time we shall be ready with the money: and even though we were not, it would be bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor.
• The Spirit was immovable as ever.
• For a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh.
• No fog, not mist; clear, bright, jovial, stirring, cold.
• Everything could yield him pleasure.
• Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all and infinitely more.
• His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
• He knew how to keep Christmas well.