 Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects in the yard were,...  The Merry Devil of Edmonton: A Comedy - Page 70edited by - 1897 - 78 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's face, with a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but it looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look — with ghostly spectacles... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1872 - 610 pages
...undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Jlarley's face. Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects...yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a had lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to... | |
 | Charles Kent - Authors, English - 1872 - 290 pages
...on Scrooge's housedoor, looking for all the world not like a knocker, but like Marley's face, "with a dismal light about it like a bad lobster in a dark cellar," prepared the way marvellously for what followed. Numberless little tid-bits of description that anybody... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1873 - 584 pages
...looked as if those features had gone out of town altogether. — Pickwick, Chap. 42. Marley's face. , and burst out heartily into such a charming little laugh of triumph, It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marlcy used to look, with ghostly spectacles... | |
 | John Camden Hotten - 1873 - 812 pages
...face !" Of course Scrooge saw it, because the expression of Mr. Dickens's face makes us see it "with a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar." There is good acting in this scene, and there is fine acting when the dying flame leaps up as though... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1874 - 224 pages
...undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's fece, with a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but it looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look, — with ghostly spectacles... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1876 - 472 pages
...its undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow, as the other objects...light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles... | |
 | James Thomas Fields - Christmas stories, English - 1876 - 444 pages
...a knoeker, but Marley's faee. Marley's faee. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objeets in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark eellar. It was not angry or feroeious, but looked at Serooge as Marley used to look : with ghostly... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Christmas stories - 1880 - 878 pages
...undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face. Marley's face. It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects...light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look : with ghostly spectacles... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but Marley's face. '90 Marley's face, with a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but it looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look — with ghostly spectacles... | |
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