...— "a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone... a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner? Hard and sharp as flint, from...secret, and selfcontained, and solitary as an oyster." Our female version is not necessarily old, nor so harsh. She should be played very, very tough, but...

...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 ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained as an oyster' (Dickens, A Christmas Carol,...

...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 generous fire ... The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his...

...tightfisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from...steel had ever struck out generous fire. Secret and self contained, and solitary as an old oyster. (At this point the transformation is complete.) The...

...influence of mental health problems on physical appearance and functioning. For example, it was said that the cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shriveled his cheeks, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his fingertips blue, and spoke out shrewdly in his grating...

...corporate managers apt to possess precisely those qualities that Dickens so deplored in Ebenezer Scrooge— "Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster." It won't do these days to make a mockery of wealth or portray a rich businessman as anything other...

...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...

...hand at the grindstone, is that Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, 30 scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel has ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold...

...tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from...steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self contained, and solitary as an oyster. Adaptation by M Lawrence Oh, hut Scrooge was a tight-fisted,...

...he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster ..." So it went that day, Dickens inexplicably exuding energy as Catherine had never seen him do. This...