 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
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 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...rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his \viry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him ; he iced his office in the dog-days... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 444 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 his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature... | |
 | John Swett - 1879 - 176 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...stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red, his thin lips hlue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows,... | |
 | 1879 - 760 oldal
...an oyster. The cold within froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheeks, stiffened his gait, made his eyes red, his thin lips...shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on bis head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his low temperature always about with... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1880 - 878 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... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1881 - 152 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... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1882 - 486 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... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 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... | |
 | John Swett - 1884 - 404 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...was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chiu. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dog-days;... | |
 | Jane Stoker - 1884 - 114 oldal
...which no steel 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... | |
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