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1  His wealth is of no use to him.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
2  If that's not high praise, tell me higher, and I'll use it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
3  But the Ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fire-place, as if he were quite used to it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
4  It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
5  When I come to think of it, I'm not at all sure that I wasn't his most particular friend; for we used to stop and speak whenever we met.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
6  At one of these a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire; and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7  It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes: for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
8  If the good St. Dunstan had but nipped the Evil Spirit's nose with a touch of such weather as that, instead of using his familiar weapons, then indeed he would have roared to lusty purpose.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
9  Although well used to ghostly company by this time, Scrooge feared the silent shape so much that his legs trembled beneath him, and he found that he could hardly stand when he prepared to follow it.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
10  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
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS