A Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards
Scrooge hand
“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.”
Scrooge description
“A squeezing,wrenching,grasping,scraping,clutching,covetous,old sinner.”
Scrooge solidarity
“Solitary as an oyster.”
Scrooge flint
Hard and sharp as flint
Scrooge cold features
“The cold within him froze his old features.”
Scrooge low temperature
‘He carried his own low temperature always’
The temperature feeling in his office
‘he iced his office’
Fairytale
‘Once upon a time…’
How he feels about Bob Cratchit
“He might keep an eye on his clerk.”
Scrooges and bobs fire
“Scrooge has a very small fire,but the clerk’s firs was so much smaller it looked like one coal.”
Bobs fire
“He couldn’t replenish it.”
Scrooge coal box
“Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room.”
The fog
‘The fog came pouring in…’
Fred wishes Scrooge
”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’
Glow
‘he was all in a glow’
Eyes
.‘his eyes sparkled’
Catchphrase
‘Bah!…Humbug!’
Done me good
‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’
Christmas humour
19.‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’
Prisons
“Are there no prisons?”
Time want and abundance
We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’
Nothing
“Nothing!”
Surplus population
23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’
My buisness
“It’s not my buisness.”
