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Current Search - Christmas in A Christmas Carol
1 The Ghost of Christmas Present rose.
2 A merry Christmas to us all, my dears.
3 "I am the Ghost of Christmas Present," said the Spirit.
4 There was a boy singing a Christmas Carol at my door last night.
5 I don't make merry myself at Christmas, and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
6 But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I'll keep my Christmas humour to the last.
7 Once upon a time--of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve--old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house.
8 He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
9 There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew; "Christmas among the rest.
10 There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge, who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
11 Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side the door, and, shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas.
12 He was not alone, but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a mourning dress: in whose eyes there were tears, which sparkled in the light that shone out of the Ghost of Christmas Past.
13 The owner of one scant young nose, gnawed and mumbled by the hungry cold as bones are gnawed by dogs, stooped down at Scrooge's keyhole to regale him with a Christmas carol; but, at the first sound of.
14 The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song; it had been a very old song when he was a boy; and from time to time they all joined in the chorus.
15 But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she, with laughing face and plundered dress, was borne towards it in the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
16 Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them, the elder too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be, struck up a sturdy song that was like a gale in itself.
17 They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas-day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.
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