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... 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 28 A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
... 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 28 A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
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... cold had little influence on Scrooge . No warmth could warm , nor wintry weather chill him . No wind that blew was bitterer than he , no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose , no pelting rain less open to entreaty . Foul ...
... cold had little influence on Scrooge . No warmth could warm , nor wintry weather chill him . No wind that blew was bitterer than he , no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose , no pelting rain less open to entreaty . Foul ...
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... cold , bleak , biting weather : foggy withal : and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down , beating their hands upon their breasts , and stamping their feet upon the pavement- stones to warm them . The ...
... cold , bleak , biting weather : foggy withal : and he could hear the people in the court outside go wheezing up and down , beating their hands upon their breasts , and stamping their feet upon the pavement- stones to warm them . The ...
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... cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen shillings a week , and a wife and family , talking about a merry ...
... cold as he was , was warmer than Scrooge ; for he returned them cordially . " There's another fellow , " muttered Scrooge ; who overheard him : " my clerk , with fifteen shillings a week , and a wife and family , talking about a merry ...
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... cold became intense . In the main street at the corner of the court , some labourers were repairing the gas - pipes , and had lighted a great fire in a brazier , round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered : 5. Links are ...
... cold became intense . In the main street at the corner of the court , some labourers were repairing the gas - pipes , and had lighted a great fire in a brazier , round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered : 5. Links are ...
Contents
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CHRISTMAS IN OLD TIME Sir Walter Scott | 150 |
THE SHIPWRECK Robert Louis Stevenson | 165 |
ELEPHANT HUNTING Roualeyn Gordon Cumming | 180 |
SOME CLEVER MONKEYS Thomas Belt | 198 |
POOR RICHARDS ALMANAC Benjamin Franklin | 204 |
GEORGE ROGERS CLARK | 221 |
TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN William Cullen Bryant | 290 |
TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY Robert Burns | 295 |
BANNOCKBURN Robert Burns | 303 |
THE GOVERNOR AND THE NOTARY Washington Irving | 311 |
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER Samuel T Coleridge | 321 |
THE PETRIFIED FERN Mary Bolles Branch | 352 |
AN EXCITING CANOE RACE J Fenimore Cooper | 376 |
THE BUFFALO Francis Parkman | 395 |
THE CAPTURE OF VINCENNES George Rogers Clark | 228 |
THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK Edgar Allan Poe | 255 |
THE MODERN BELLE Stark | 266 |
THE KNOCKOUT Davy Crockett | 275 |
TO MY INFANT SON Thomas Hood | 283 |
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE Alfred Tennyson | 452 |
QUEEN VICTORIA Anna McCaleb | 458 |
THE RECESSIONAL Rudyard Kipling | 471 |
THE SOLDIERS DREAM Thomas Campbell | 476 |
THE PICKETGUARD Mrs Ethel Lynn Beers | 483 |
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