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1 Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said Scrooge, "answer me one question.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
2 The yard was so dark that even Scrooge, who knew its every stone, was fain to grope with his hands.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
3 Passing through the wall of mud and stone, they found a cheerful company assembled round a glowing fire.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
4 But, even here, two men who watched the light had made a fire that through the loophole in the thick stone wall shed out a ray of brightness on the awful sea.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
5 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.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
6 In time the bells ceased, and the bakers were shut up; and yet there was a genial shadowing forth of all these dinners, and the progress of their cooking, in the thawed blotch of wet above each baker's oven; where the pavement smoked as if its stones were cooking too.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7 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 CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS