 Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, 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...  The Sentence and Word Book: A Guide to Writing, Spelling, and Composition by ... - Page 148de James Johonnot - 1885 - 184 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 pages
...tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint. from...him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner - 1908 - 336 pages
...the lea. 11. Ye were little at the first, but mighty at the last. 12. The fortune will be mine. 13. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Mary E. Doyle - 1909 - 508 pages
...tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint from...solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his little features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheeks, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1909 - 206 pages
...grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner I Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever...self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within Tiirn froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made... | |
 | Alexander John Philip - 1909 - 460 pages
...wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner. Hard and sharp as flint — secret — and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made liis eyes red, his thin lips blue, and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Robert Comfort Metcalf, Augustine L. Rafter - 1910 - 396 pages
...tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint, from...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 - 1910 - 570 pages
...tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint, from...him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1910 - 660 pages
...sharp as flint, frott which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret and Belf-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze...his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red, hia thin lips blue ; aud spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and... | |
 | Marietta Knight - 1910 - 286 pages
...Scrooge was a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner, hard and sharp as flint. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped...stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue. He carried his own low temperature always about with him ; he iced his office in the dog days, and... | |
 | Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910 - 310 pages
...names. It was all the same to him. 6. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheek, stiffened... | |
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