1 But I'll offer to go if anybody else will.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 2 I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.
3 "Do go on, Fred," said Scrooge's niece, clapping her hands.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 4 He passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock.
5 This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
6 "I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 7 Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.
8 Then she began to drag him, in her childish eagerness, towards the door; and he, nothing loath to go, accompanied her.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 9 It's likely to be a very cheap funeral," said the same speaker; "for, upon my life, I don't know of anybody to go to it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS 10 There was plenty of width for that, and room to spare; which is perhaps the reason why Scrooge thought he saw a locomotive hearse going on before him in the gloom.
11 He resolved to lie awake until the hour was passed; and, considering that he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven, this was, perhaps, the wisest resolution in his power.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 12 Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way.
13 I was only going to say," said Scrooge's nephew, "that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 14 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.
15 The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS