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1 "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge's niece.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
2 At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
3 And at the same time there emerged, from scores of by-streets, lanes, and nameless turnings, innumerable people, carrying their dinners to the bakers' shops.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
4 Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker's book, went home to bed.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
5 Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6 Here, the flickering of the blaze showed preparations for a cosy dinner, with hot plates baking through and through before the fire, and deep red curtains, ready to be drawn to shut out cold and darkness.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7 The sight of these poor revellers appeared to interest the Spirit very much, for he stood with Scrooge beside him in a baker's doorway, and, taking off the covers as their bearers passed, sprinkled incense on their dinners from his torch.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
8 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.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS