Quotes

• "tight-fisted hand at the grindstone"
• "Hard and sharp as flint"
• Exclamatory sentence:

  " The grocers! Oh the grocers!. Nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down or one, but through those gaps such glimpses!"
• Use of lists:

  " There were piles of filberts,mossy and brown, recalling in their fragrance ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shuffling ankle deep through withered leaves"
• Simile:

  " Broad- girthed Spanish onions shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish friars"
• " Scrooge had acted like a man out his wits. His heart and soul were in the scene."
• "He (Fezziwig) has the power to render us happy or unhappy"
• "Another idol has displaced me"
• "Remove me... I cannot bear it"
• "Jolly giant"
• " the spirit's eyes were clear and kind"
• " I learnt a lesson which is working now"
• "pears and apples cluster high"
• "Martha... Ran into his arms"
• "such a goose... Tenderness... flavour... cheapness"
• " A small pudding for a large family"
• "I see a vacant seat"
• "Scrooge was the ogre of the family"
• "his offences carry their own punishment"
• "a boy and girl. Yellow, meagre, ragged, scowling, wolfish"
• "ignorance and want"
• "the phantom slowly,gravely, silently approached"
• " deep black... Concealed it's head"
• "ghostly eyes"
• " I hope to live to be another man"
• "gasping out his last there, alone by himself"
• "the case of this unhappy man might be my own"
• "a happier house for this man's death"
• "I have come to dinner. Will you let me in?"
• "I am about to raise your salary"
• "Scrooge was better than his word"
• "Tiny Tim who did not die"
• "As good a friend, as good a master and as good a man"
• "He knew how to keep Christmas"
• "Solitary as an oyster"
• Christmas is "a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time"
• "keep your Christmas by losing your situation"
• "Are there no prisons?"
• "decrease the surplus population"
• "the fog and darkness thickened"