1 The chain he drew was clasped about his middle.
2 "I wear the chain I forged in life," replied the Ghost.
3 Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands.
4 Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains.
5 Upon the floor within were piled up heaps of rusty keys, nails, chains, hinges, files, scales, weights, and refuse iron of all kinds.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 6 It held up its chain at arm's length, as if that were the cause of all its unavailing grief, and flung it heavily upon the ground again.
7 They were succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below, as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchant's cellar.
8 He ventured to raise his eyes again, and found his supernatural visitor confronting him in an erect attitude, with its chain wound over and about its arm.
9 At this the spirit raised a frightful cry, and shook its chain with such a dismal and appalling noise, that Scrooge held on tight to his chair, to save himself from falling in a swoon.
10 The Ghost, on hearing this, set up another cry, and clanked its chain so hideously in the dead silence of the night, that the Ward would have been justified in indicting it for a nuisance.