 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...  Works - Page 94by Thomas Hood - 1872Full view - About this book
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, 15 clutching, covetous old sinner ! Hard and sharp as...shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his 20 eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, • from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire;...shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his 20 eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...wrenching, grasping, scraping, 15 clutching, covetous old sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint, from which jio steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret,...shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his 20 eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1846 - 306 pages
...both names:'it was all the same to him. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,...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,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...crooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutchng, covetous old sinner ! Hard and sharp as a flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire ; secret and elf-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him roze his old features, nipped his pointed... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Children - 1856 - 192 pages
...names : it was all the same to him. Oh ! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,...eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly iu his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1884 - 804 pages
...hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! * squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous eld sinner ! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel...pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; ..iade his eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1859 - 582 pages
...names. It was all the same to him. Oh ! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,...within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed noise, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait ; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue ; and spoke... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - Europe - 1859 - 312 pages
...the grindstone, Scrooge. A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! The cold within him froze his old features, nipped...blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. Heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, nor wintry weather chill him.... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 386 pages
...names. It was all the same to him. 5. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge ! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching,...him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, .shriveled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips' blue ; and spoke out shrewdly... | |
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