1 But he raised them speedily on hearing his own name.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 2 "Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are," she returned.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 3 It was double locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed.
4 It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's.
5 There was something very awful, too, in the spectre's being provided with an infernal atmosphere of his own.
6 Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 7 I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free-will, and of my own free-will I wore it.
8 He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome by an irresistible drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS 9 Every room above, and every cask in the wine merchant's cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own.
10 I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office or his dusty chambers.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 11 He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
12 That, and its livid colour, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face, and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression.
13 The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.
14 But he couldn't replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part.
15 But, finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands, and, lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS 16 In the struggle--if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost, with no visible resistance on its own part, was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary--Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.
A Christmas Carol By Charles DickensContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST 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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