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LWC's Words, by LWC
mkuo's Words, by mkuo
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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, and solitary as an oyster.
--Charles Dickens, 1843, A Christmas Carol
Dickens had a way with names.