"Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
b3356210464has quoted3 years ago
To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything,
b3356210464has quoted3 years ago
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
b3356210464has quoted3 years ago
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
b4697926722has quoted3 years ago
squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
сжимающий, выжимающий, хватающий, скребущий, цепляющий, жадный старый грешник
Kingahas quoted3 years ago
The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear heart’s content.
fatimoaaahas quoted6 hours ago
othing!” Scrooge replied.
“You wish to be anonymous?”
“I wish to be left alone,” said Scrooge
fatimoaaahas quoted6 hours ago
Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern