A Christmas Carol Quotes Flashcards

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1
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Scrooge hand

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“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone.”

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Scrooge description

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

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3
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Scrooge solidarity

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“Solitary as an oyster.”

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4
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Scrooge flint

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Hard and sharp as flint

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5
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Scrooge cold features

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“The cold within him froze his old features.”

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6
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Scrooge low temperature

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‘He carried his own low temperature always’

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7
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The temperature feeling in his office

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‘he iced his office’

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8
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Fairytale

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‘Once upon a time…’

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9
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How he feels about Bob Cratchit

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“He might keep an eye on his clerk.”

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10
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Scrooges and bobs fire

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“Scrooge has a very small fire,but the clerk’s firs was so much smaller it looked like one coal.”

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11
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Bobs fire

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“He couldn’t replenish it.”

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12
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Scrooge coal box

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“Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room.”

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13
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The fog

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‘The fog came pouring in…’

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14
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Fred wishes Scrooge

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”A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice’

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15
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Glow

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‘he was all in a glow’

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16
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Eyes

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.‘his eyes sparkled’

17
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Catchphrase

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‘Bah!…Humbug!’

18
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Done me good

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‘I believe it has done me good and will do me good’

19
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Christmas humour

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19.‘I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last’

20
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Prisons

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“Are there no prisons?”

21
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Time want and abundance

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We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is
keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices’

22
Q

Nothing

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“Nothing!”

23
Q

Surplus population

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23.‘If they would rather die… they had better do it, and decrease the
surplus population’

24
Q

My buisness

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“It’s not my buisness.”

25
Q

Fog and darkness thicken

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“Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so.”

26
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Intensity of cold

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“The cold became intense.”

27
Q

Great fire in a brazier

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‘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’

28
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Poor man excuses

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“A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty- fifth of december!”

29
Q

Bob going home

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“The clerk went down a slide and then ran home to Camden town.”

30
Q

Scrooge melancholy

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“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his unusual melancholy tavern.”

31
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Marley opening of the Novel

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“Marley was dead,to begin with.”

32
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Scrooge soul

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“Soul mourner”,soul friend”

33
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Marley knocker

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“Not a knocker,but Marley’s face”

34
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Darkness Scrooge enjoys

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“Darkness is cheap,and Scrooge liked it.”

35
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Marley’s chain

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“The chain he drew was clasped around his middle.”

36
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Marley’s attachements

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“It was long made of cash-boxes,keys,padlocks,ledgers,deeds and heavy purses wrought in steel.”

37
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Scrooge partner

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“In life I was your partner,Jacob Marley.”