Citations:scene


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.
 * They left the busy scene, and went into an obscure part of the town, where Scrooge had never penetrated before, although he recognised its situation, and its bad repute.
 * He recoiled in terror, for the scene had changed, and now he almost touched a bed: a bare, uncurtained bed: on which, beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up, which, though it was dumb, announced itself in awful language.