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1 Scrooge's niece's sisters, and all the other ladies, expressed the same opinion.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
2 The way he went after that plump sister in the lace tucker was an outrage on the credulity of human nature.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
3 There, all the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet them.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
4 Topper had clearly got his eye upon one of Scrooge's niece's sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
5 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 CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6 Scrooge's nephew revelled in another laugh, and, as it was impossible to keep the infection off, though the plump sister tried hard to do it with aromatic vinegar, his example was unanimously followed.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7 He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS