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1  The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
2  It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that, as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
3  He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him, and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
4  Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
5  No change, no degradation, no perversion of humanity, in any grade, through all the mysteries of wonderful creation, has monsters half so horrible and dread.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6  And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event, but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
7  To Scrooge's horror, looking back, he saw the last of the land, a frightful range of rocks, behind them; and his ears were deafened by the thundering of water, as it rolled and roared, and raged among the dreadful caverns it had worn, and fiercely tried to undermine the earth.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS