1 Quiet and dark, beside him stood the Phantom, with its outstretched hand.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 2 The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.
3 The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.
5 It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
6 Half-a-dozen gas-lamps out of the street wouldn't have lighted the entry too well, so you may suppose that it was pretty dark with Scrooge's dip.
7 When Scrooge awoke it was so dark, that, looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 8 The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and, withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 9 Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening it, and, having unfastened a great many knots, dragged out a large heavy roll of some dark stuff.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 10 Its dark brown curls were long and free; free as its genial face, its sparkling eye, its open hand, its cheery voice, its unconstrained demeanour, and its joyful air.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 11 He lay, in the dark, empty house, with not a man, a woman, or a child to say he was kind to me in this or that, and for the memory of one kind word I will be kind to him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 12 The room was very dark, too dark to be observed with any accuracy, though Scrooge glanced round it in obedience to a secret impulse, anxious to know what kind of room it was.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 13 By this time it was getting dark, and snowing pretty heavily; and as Scrooge and the Spirit went along the streets, the brightness of the roaring fires in kitchens, parlours, and all sorts of rooms was wonderful.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 14 The City clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already--it had not been light all day--and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
15 Master Scrooge's trunk being by this time tied on to the top of the chaise, the children bade the schoolmaster good-bye right willingly; and, getting into it, drove gaily down the garden sweep; the quick wheels dashing the hoar frost and snow from off the dark leaves of the evergreens like spray.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas-day, with homeward hopes belonging to it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 17 If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot--say St. Paul's Church-yard, for instance--literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
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