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Charles Dickens's Sunday Under Three Heads.
I don’t make merry myself at Christmas and I can’t afford to make idle people merry.
Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal.
If they would rather die, they’d better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard. Clash, clang, hammer; ding, dong, bell. Bell, dong, ding; hammer, clang, clash! Oh, glorious, glorious!
Characters of Nicholas Nickleby.
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!
At Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood the family display of glass. Two tumblers, and a custard-cup without a handle.
My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
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1831 Broughton Bridge collapse. An iron chain suspension bridge spanning the River Irwell between Broughton and Pendleton near Manchester, collapsed into the river when around 70 soldiers, marching in step, were crossing it. Many fell into the water with several injured. The incident led to the British Army ordering that troops should "break step" when crossing a bridge.

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