Scrooge Quotes Flashcards
squeezing
A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner!
Hard
Hard and sharp as flint, from
which no steel had ever struck out generous fire
oyster
solitary as an oyster
features
the cold within him froze his old features
crowded paths of life
to edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance
Bah!
Bah! Humbug
rather die
If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
melancholy
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern
Darkness
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it
upon his knees
Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face
gladness
filled with gladness when he heard them give each other Merry Christmas
GOCP: solitary child
A solitary child, neglected by his friends is left there still’
GOCP: world hands
Would you so soon put out, with world hands, the light I give?
too late
I wish but it’s too late now
uneasy
Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind
every one aside
he put them every one aside with his own hand
GOCP: worthless and less fit
you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man’s child.
Fred: no use
His wealth is of no use to him. He doesn’t do any good with it
another man
I hope to live to be another man from what I was
the bundle
It’s no sin. Open the bundle, Joe.
tearing at the door
A cat was tearing at the door and there was a sound of gnawing rats
Caroline
We may sleep to-night with light hearts, Caroline!
pleasure
The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure
sponge away
I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
feather
I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel
baby
I am quite a baby
Portly Gentlemen: munificence
I don’t know what to say to such munificence
salary
I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family
second father
To Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father
