a christmas carol Flashcards
`“O but he was a tight-fisted…
“O but he was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge… a squeezing, wrenching, grasping,scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner.”
-stave 1
“as solitary…
“solitary as an oyster”
-stave 1
“It was a strange figure…
“It was a strange figure like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man”
-stave 2
“It wore a…
“It wore a tunic of the purest white… from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light”
-stave 2
“A solitary
“A solitary child, neglected by his friends is left there still’ scrooge said he knew it and he sobbed.”
-stave 2
“Old Fezziwig…
“Old Fezziwig.. rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself from shoes to his organ of benevolence and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich fat, joviql voice.”
“Another idol has…
“Another idol has displaced me… a golden one.”
-stave 2
-belle to scrooge
“There sat a…
“There sat a jolly giant, glorious to see who bore a glowing torch”
-stave 3
“And how did little tim behave…
“And how did little Tim behave’ asked Mrs Cratchit,’As good as gold’ said Bob”
-stave 3
“God bless…
“God bless everyone’ aid Tiny Tim”
-stave 3
“They are…
“They are mans.”
-stave 3
“They were a boy and a girl…
“They were a boy and a girl.Yellow, meager, ragged, scowling, wolfish.”
-stave 3
“The Phantom…
“The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.”
-stave 4
“The ways were foul and narrow…
“The ways were foul and narrow; the shops and houses wretched;the people half naked, drunken slipshod, ugly… the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth and misery.”
-stave 4
“I will…
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it there all the year.”
-stave 4
