Then she remembered her mother’s promise and, slipping her hand under her pillow, drew out a little crimson-covered book.
I cannot wish to be snowed up a week at Randalls.
All sorts of horrors were supposed. Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day!
Some of the pictures of Father Christmas in our world make him look only funny and jolly.
I have brought you as the compliments of the season — I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of sherry wine — and I have brought you, Mum, a bottle of port wine.”
Isn’t it a lovely Christmas? I’m so glad it’s white. Any other kind of Christmas doesn’t seem real, does it? I don’t like green Christmases.
And yet this Christmas day, in spite of Tom’s fresh delight in home, was not, he thought, somehow or other, quite so happy as it had always been before.
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
I remembered how old Earnshaw used to come in when all was tidied, and call me a cant lass, and slip a shilling into my hand as a Christmas-box
'… Other men are leading exciting lives, but I - well, I'm just a small-town bank clerk that even the army didn't want.'
It was so terribly cold. Snow was falling, and it was almost dark.
“If you searched every old folks’ home in the country, you couldn’t find anyone who looked more like Santa Claus”.
For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas…perhaps…means a little bit more!
One of my most vivid memories is of coming back West from prep school and later from college at Christmas time.
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