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1  Which all the family re-echoed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
2  Scrooge was the Ogre of the family.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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3  "A tremendous family to provide for," muttered Scrooge.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
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4  Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
5  It has been done in your name, or at least in that of your family, said Scrooge.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6  Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7  There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge, who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen shillings a week, and a wife and family, talking about a merry Christmas.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
8  Then all the Cratchit family drew round the hearth in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, meaning half a one; and at Bob Cratchit's elbow stood the family display of glass.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
9  They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawn-broker's.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
10  For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS