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Current Search - Shadows in A Christmas Carol
1 "These are but shadows of the things that have been," said the Ghost.
2 "I told you these were shadows of the things that have been," said the Ghost.
3 They are here--I am here--the shadows of the things that would have been may be dispelled.
4 Scrooge followed in the shadow of its dress, which bore him up, he thought, and carried him along.
5 The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.
6 If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, none other of my race," returned the Ghost, "will find him here.
7 "You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us," Scrooge pursued.
8 It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
9 There was an eager, greedy, restless motion in the eye, which showed the passion that had taken root, and where the shadow of the growing tree would fall.
10 But nothing doubting that, to whomsoever they applied, they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.
11 In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners, and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.