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Quotation from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

“Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner”

Charles Dickens (spoken by Narrator)

A Christmas Carol, Stave I (1843 first edition)

Portrait of Charles Dickens

The narrator's portrait of Scrooge's avarice through a cascade of participles.

Citation: "Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner" — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, Stave I (1843 first edition). (id a-christmas-carol-q2)

Portrait: Dickens Gurney head, Jeremiah Gurney, Public domain.

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