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1  "You fear the world too much," she answered gently.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
2  It makes them weak by candle-light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father, when he comes home, for the world.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 4 THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS
3  It was made when we were both poor, and content to be so, until, in good season, we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
4  He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old City knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough in the good old world.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 5 THE END OF IT
5  It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that, while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS
6  All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 2 THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS
7  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 Dickens
ContextHighlight   In 3 THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS