Scrooge Flashcards
“He”
“He was a tight fisted hand at the grindstone”
“A squeezing”
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!”
“solitary”
“solitary as an oyster”
“hard”
“hard and sharp as flint”
“The cold”
“The cold within him froze his features… thin blue lips… frosty rime was on his head”
“no wind”
“no wind that blew was bitterer than he”
“carried”
“carried his own low temperature with him”
“cold”
“cold, bleak, biting weather”
“it was”
“it was quite dark already: it had not been light all day”
“the fog”
“the fog and darkness thickened”
“Scrooge had”
“Scrooge had a very small fire but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller than it looked like one coal”
“Scrooge took”
“Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern”
“Darkness”
“Darkness is cheap, Scrooge liked it”
“Are there”
“Are there no prisons, no workhouses for the poor?
“Then the”
“Then the poor should die and decrease the surplus population”
