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A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
2 No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
3 The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
4 If the good St. Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
5 It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down, beating their hands upon their breasts, and stamping their feet upon the pavement stones to warm them.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
6 It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7 Joining their horny hands over the rough table at which they sat, they wished each other Merry Christmas in their can of grog; and one of them, the elder too, with his face all damaged and scarred with hard weather, as the figure-head of an old ship might be, struck up a sturdy song that was like a gale in itself.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS