Strophe

 1   1|        candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination,
 2   1|             rapture. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings
 3   1|             the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in
 4   1|             times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then
 5   1|            Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.
 6   1|            that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve
 7   1|        awful, too, in the spectre's being provided with an infernal
 8   1|              who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched
 9   1|             the first syllable. And being, from the emotion he had
10   2|         twelve at noon!'' ~The idea being an alarming one, he scrambled
11   2|          receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's
12   2|     fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing with one arm,
13   2|    Singularly low, as if instead of being so close beside him, it
14   2|        tried to touch his head; but being too little, laughed again,
15   2|              Master Scrooge's trunk being by this time tied on to
16   2|             merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its
17   2|        ground. ~He was conscious of being exhausted, and overcome
18   2|        drowsiness; and, further, of being in his own bedroom. He gave
19   3|             who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or
20   3|             with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day,
21   3|     astonished him very much. ~Now, being prepared for almost anything,
22   3|     proclaimed the hour; and which, being only light, was more alarming
23   3|        fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby -- compounded
24   3|       eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda,
25   3|             The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect,
26   3|       relief of Scrooge the Baleful being done with. Bob Cratchit
27   3| tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter
28   3|           good long rest; to-morrow being a holiday she passed at
29   3|           their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes
30   3|             sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge,
31   3|             their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared
32   3|            his shaking Scrooge. But being thoroughly good-natured,
33   3|             when, another blind-man being in office, they were so
34   4|           his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness
35   4|             question, I'd repent of being so liberal and knock off