“Solitary”
“Solitary as an oyster”
“Darkness”
“Darkness was cheap, and Scrooge liked it”
“Painted”
“He never painted out Old Marley’s name”
“Prisons”
“Are there no prisons?”
“Die”
“If they had rather die, then they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
“Sobbed”
“He sobbed”
“Ignorance” and “want”
“They are man’s. Beware them both.”
“Plundered and bereft” “a crutch without an owner, careful persevered”
The difference between Scrooge’s and Tiny Tim’s death.
“Merry”
“As merry as a school boy”
“Chains”
“Fettered in chains”
“Doornail”
“As dead as a doornail”