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Definition of Scrooges
1. scrooge [n] - See also: scrooge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrooges
Literary usage of Scrooges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1894)
"scrooges all that my manor called Patinar hall and all my other lands &c to hold for
... JOHN scrooges of Palmer Hall in the parish of Alberry in the Co. of ..."
2. Wheeler's Graded Literary Readers, with Interpretations by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler (1919)
"In his great love for his fellow men, Dickens hoped that thus he might induce
those who, before, had been scrooges, to go out and make the unfortunate happy ..."
3. The Human Machine: An Inquiry Into the Diversity of Human Faculty in Its by John Ferguson Nisbet (1899)
"There are Mark Tapleys who are always jolly, and scrooges who are never jolly.
... The scrooges never change, any more than the Mark Tapleys. ..."
4. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1860)
"Alas for Jonathan's literature! though we have scrooges innumerable, there is
hardly a house in North America old enough to tempt the philanthropic Marley. ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1868)
"... this closing of the book, this ringing down the drop scene, this writing Finis!
Are there no more Tiny Tims, nor scrooges, ..."
6. Lives of Great English Writers from Chaucer to Browning by Walter Swain Hinchman, Francis Barton Gummere (1908)
"... cheers the faint of heart, wherever scrooges are transformed and Tiny Tims
are loved, the name of Dickens will be an enduring and a blessed name. ..."
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