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1 No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
2 Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
3 It is not that the hand is heavy, and will fall down when released; it is not that the heart and pulse are still; but that the hand WAS open, generous, and true; the heart brave, warm, and tender; and the pulse a man's.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
4 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
5 In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 1 MARLEY'S GHOST
6 Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room as you would desire to see upon a winter's night.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7 It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time.
A Christmas CarolBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS