 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 ... - Pagina 3711868Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pagine
...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 638 pagine
...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 chiu. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 488 pagine
...Helf-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed notae, 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1872 - 472 pagine
...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... | |
 | 1872 - 514 pagine
...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 oii his eyebrows, and his wiry chiu. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 pagine
...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 frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 pagine
...The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiIfened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips 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 Iow temperature... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 610 pagine
...oat generous fire ; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an ouster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made hb eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pagine
...out generous fire ; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze less and hopeless, the tumbrils roll along. As the sombre wheels of the six carts A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 pagine
...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 eye-brows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
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