A Christmas Carol quiz

"Overrun by grass and weeds..... ______ up with too much burying"

Fred says that Christmas time is the time when people are "fellow _______ to the grave"

"Belle accuses Scrooge of having replaced her with a ______ ________

"Bright clear jet of _______"

Mrs Cratchit is ‘dressed out but poorly in a _______-_________ gown’

Fred's laughter is described as "irresistibly ________"

Scrooge’s corpse is “plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, _________ for”.

The dealings of my trade were but a _________ of water in the comprehensive _______ of my business!”

"He iced his office in the _____-_______

Scrooge visits a ‘place where Miners live, who labour in the _______ of the earth’

"Are there no ________? / and the union _________?"

Mrs Cratchit tells her children that she “wouldn't show _______ _______ to your father when he comes home, for the world

Scrooge regrets not having a daughter, who would have been a "______ time in the haggard _______ of his life"

Scrooge's grave is "Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds…_________ up with too much burying....

Young Scrooge and his fellow apprentice Dick are described as ‘panting like ________-_________’ as they prepare Fezziwig’s office for the Christmas party.

The Ghost of Christmas Present bears a ‘__________ torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn’

"Your lip is ______.... and what is that upon your ______?

Dickens describes how ‘a positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig’s calves’ which ‘shone like ________’ as he dances

Oh, a wonderful pudding! Nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would have been flat _________to do so. Any Cratchit would have _______ to hint at such a thing

Want and Ignorance are described "______, meagre, ragged, wolfish"

his clerk, who in a dismal little _______ beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk's fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one ____________.