 Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his...  Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National ... - Page 3711868Full view - About this book
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his 20 eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 352 pages
...out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled...blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1846 - 306 pages
...out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary asan oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled...blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry '.' -chin.-, fie ?ajrifd Dfe:'o%n... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 348 pages
...out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled...blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Children - 1856 - 192 pages
...out generous fire ; secret and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled...eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly iu his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 pages
...out generous fire ; secret and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; ..iade his eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Europe - 1859 - 312 pages
...squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled...blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. Heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 582 pages
...self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed noise, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his...blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1867 - 290 pages
...generous fire ; secret, and selfcontained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his ol4 features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his...blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Richard Edwards - Readers - 1867 - 372 pages
...solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red,...blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frost rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
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