"Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You're poor enough."
b3356210464fez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything,
b3356210464fez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle,
b3356210464fez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail.
b4697926722fez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner
сжимающий, выжимающий, хватающий, скребущий, цепляющий, жадный старый грешник
Kingafez uma citaçãohá 2 anos
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.
Fizza Imranfez uma citaçãomês passado
“To any kindly given. To a poor one most.”
“Why to a poor one most?” asked Scrooge.
“Because it needs it most.”
Evie Passeyfez uma citaçãohá 2 meses
Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!