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1  "A quarter past," said Scrooge, counting.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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2  "He is past relenting," said her husband.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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3  I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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4  "Past it rather," Peter answered, shutting up his book.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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5  The chimes were ringing the three-quarters past eleven at that moment.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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6  You may--the memory of what is past half makes me hope you will--have pain in this.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7  They could scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his old partner, for that was Past, and this Ghost's province was the Future.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
8  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.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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9  But when, at last, he caught her; when, in spite of all her silken rustlings, and her rapid flutterings past him, he got her into a corner whence there was no escape, then his conduct was the most execrable.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS