A Christmas Carol Flashcards

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“Hard and…”

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“Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire.”

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“A squeezing…”

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“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner.”

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“He was all…” (Fred)

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“He was all glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled and his breath smoked again.”

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“I wear…”

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“I wear the chains I forged in life.”

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“I cannot… I cannot… I cannot…”

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“I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.”

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“Like a… : yet not so like a…”

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“Like a child: yet not so like a child as an old man.”

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“A tunic of..”

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“A tunic of the purest white.”

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“Bound a..”

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“Bound a lustrous belt.”

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“Fresh…”

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“Fresh green holly in its hand.”

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“The figure itself…”

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“The figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness.”

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“A bright…”

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“A bright clear jet of light.”

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“For it was a…”

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“For it was a clear, cold winters day.”

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“A lonely boy was..”

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“A lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire.”

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“Father’s so much…”

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“Fathers so much kinder than he use to be, that homes like heaven.”

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“I have seen your..”

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“I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one until the master-passion, Gain, engrosses you.”

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“The … he gives, is quite…”

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“The happiness he gives is quite as great as is it costs a fortune.”

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“A … one.”

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“A golden one.”

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“A simple…”

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“A simple deep green robe.”

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“A goose the..”

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“A goose the rarest of all birds.”

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“Eked out…”

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“Eked out by apple sauce.”

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“A small pudding..”

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“A small pudding for a large family.”

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“A… hand like…”

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“A stale and shrivelled hand like that of age.”

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“This boy is… this girl is… beware… […] but most of all…”

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“This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware of them both […] but most of all this boy.”

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“This boy is… this girl is… beware… […] but most of all…”

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“This boy is ignorance. This girl is want. Beware of them both […] but most of all this boy.”

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“For on his brow…”

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“For on his brow I see that written which is Doom.”

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“Are there no…? Are there no…?”

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“Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”

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“Slowly, g—, s—…”

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“Slowly, gravely, silently approached.”

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“Down upon…”

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“Down upon his knee.”

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“Shrouded in a…”

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“Shrouded in a deep black garment.”

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“Difficult to detach…”

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“Difficult to detach its figure from the night.”

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“The Spirit answered not,…”

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“The Spirit answered not, but pointed onward with its hand.”

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“Obedience…”

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“Obedience to a secret impulse.”

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“Oh cold…”

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“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death.”

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“I see a… and a…”

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“I see a vacant seat and a crutch without an owner.”

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“The… hand…”

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“The kind hand trembled.”

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“I will live in the..”

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“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future! The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”

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“I am as… I am as… I am as… I am as.. “

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“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy, I am as giddy as a drunken man.”