"squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching covetous old sinner"
"he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head"
"yellowish" "wolfish" "scowling"
"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The spirits of all Three shall strive within me"
"Quite a baby" "merry as a schoolboy"