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1  The finger pointed from the grave to him, and back again.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
2  A light shone from the window of a hut, and swiftly they advanced towards it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
3  When it had said these words, the spectre took its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head as before.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
4  After it had passed away they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
5  But for this, it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
6  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 Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7  When he roused himself from his thoughtful quest, he fancied, from the turn of the hand, and its situation in reference to himself, that the Unseen Eyes were looking at him keenly.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
8  These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
9  If each smooth tile had been a blank at first, with power to shape some picture on its surface from the disjointed fragments of his thoughts, there would have been a copy of old Marley's head on every one.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
10  It was a strange figure--like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
11  But, if you had judged from the numbers of people on their way to friendly gatherings, you might have thought that no one was at home to give them welcome when they got there, instead of every house expecting company, and piling up its fires half-chimney high.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
12  She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of her children in their play.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
13  And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose, went straight to bed without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
14  But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which all this was visible; and which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap, which it now held under its arm.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
15  Sitting in among the wares he dealt in, by a charcoal stove made of old bricks, was a grey-haired rascal, nearly seventy years of age, who had screened himself from the cold air without by a frouzy curtaining of miscellaneous tatters hung upon a line, and smoked his pipe in all the luxury of calm retirement.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
16  For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball--better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest--laughing heartily if it went right, and not less heartily if it went wrong.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
17  And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place or giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed; or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse, rank grass.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
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