Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, a...
— Charles Dickens
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- a tight-fisted hand at the grind-stone
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- No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him
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