 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 Character Building Readers: First reader, part one-[eighth year] - 226. oldalszerző: Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner - 1910Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 oldal
...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...grating voice. A frosty rime was on "his head, and on hia eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him ; he iced... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 oldal
...no steel had ever struck 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 306 oldal
...which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary asan oyster. 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 348 oldal
...no steel had ever struck 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 eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 352 oldal
...no steel had ever struck 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 eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1856 - 192 oldal
...no steel had ever struck 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 eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 oldal
...no steel had ever struck 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... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1859 - 312 oldal
...the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! 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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 oldal
...which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped...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... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 374 oldal
...which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped...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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