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Select the missing terms from Clement Clarke Moore's famous poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (better known as
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
).
Click the box to see the possible answers.
’Twas the night before
1._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the
2._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
with care
In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
;
And mamma in her
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap,
When out on the
5._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the luster of mid-day to
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name:
“Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now, Prancer and Vixen!
“On, Comet! On, Cupid! On, Donder and Blitzen!
“To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall!
“Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”
As dry
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and
11._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
! His dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as
14._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
, like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his
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pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him
20._____
pawing
objects
twinkled
chimney
eagles
lawn
encircled
tarnished
Christmas
kerchief
straight
obstacle
white
spite
finger
exclaim
leaves
shutters
heads
laughed
, ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night.”