Christmas too is pre-eminently the Feast of the Absent, the Festival of the Far-Away, for the most prosperous ingathering of beloved faces about the Christmas fire can but include a small number of those we would fain have there; and have you ever realized that the absent are ghosts?

"He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!" cried Scrooge's nephew.

As with all of her people, Christmas was the great day of the year to her.

The wonderful never-to-be forgotten Christmas that came to them is the climax of a series of exciting incidents.

At the same time he realized that Christmas would probably be spoiledthe one thing he had banked on for momentary relief.

Christmas is a primary double of the First Class.

What the present generation have gained in head, they have lost in heart, and Christmas is almost the only surviving holiday of the calendar.

Christmas is the friendly human announcement of this ghostly truth; its holly and boar's-head are but a rough-and-tumble emblazonment of that mystic gospel

"What is it, Andrew?" "You know Christmas is comin', ma'am, and I want to buy my mother a nice dress for a Christmas presentnot a calico one, but a thick one for winter.

Christmas is strictly a Comic Annual, and its specific gaiety is even implied in the specific gravity of its oxen."

Old Christmas is a coming, to the confusion of Puritans, Muggletonians, Anabaptists, Quakers, and that Unwassailing Crew.

Yes, Christmas is Christmas still in the heart of old England.

Christmas was nearer, nearer,the bell tolled.

Christmas is a bore!

Yes, Christmas is hereChristmas, when winter and jollity, foul weather and fun, cold winds and hot pudding, good frosts and good fires, are at their meridian!

Christmas is a dull time with us.

"Merry Christmas!" was the cry, early in the morning, and the boys tumbled out of bed and dressed in a hurry.

After the year 1843 the one literary work which he never neglected was to furnish a Christmas story for his readers; and it is due in some measure to the help of these stories, brimming over with good cheer, that Christmas has become in all English-speaking countries a season of gladness, of gift giving at home, and of remembering those less fortunate than ourselves, who are still members of a common brotherhood.

But, despite these dangers and difficulties, all the world at Rome eats pan giallo and torone at Christmas,and a Christmas without them would be an egg without salt.

Christmas was the only festival he retained.

She wasn't quite sure that Christmas was not, after all, a relic of Papistry,for Jinny was a thorough Protestant: a Christian, as far as she understood Him, with a keen interest in the Indian missions.

They have had them since the days when Christmas was a pagan celebration of the winter solstice, when dried codfish was the staple winter food, and when rice was the rarest of imported delicacies.

Why, thou should'st spend, thou should'st not care to get: Christmas is god of hospitality.

At the same time he realized that Christmas would probably be spoiledthe one thing he had banked on for momentary relief.