1 If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart, perhaps, than they were.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 2 When they were within two paces of each other, Marley's Ghost held up its hand, warning him to come no nearer.
3 After it had passed away they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath of hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless.
5 Having them shown to him in this way, he tried to say they were fine children, but the words choked themselves, rather than be parties to a lie of such enormous magnitude.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 6 The Spirit stood beside sick-beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 7 Likewise at the game of How, When, and Where, she was very great, and, to the secret joy of Scrooge's nephew, beat her sisters hollow: though they were sharp girls too, as Topper could have told you.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 8 They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawn-broker's.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 9 The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come conveyed him, as before--though at a different time, he thought: indeed, there seemed no order in these latter visions, save that they were in the Future--into the resorts of business men, but showed him not himself.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 10 For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 11 Although they had but that moment left the school behind them, they were now in the busy thoroughfares of a city, where shadowy passengers passed and repassed; where shadowy carts and coaches battled for the way, and all the strife and tumult of a real city were.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 12 But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 13 But there they were in the heart of it; on 'Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often.'
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 14 The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, for there were more children there than Scrooge in his agitated state of mind could count; and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContext Highlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS