Today's is from 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis, found in Anna James' 'A Children's Literary Christmas':

"And on the sledge sat a person whom everyone knew the moment they set eyes on him. He was a huge man in a bright red robe..."

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Today's is from 'The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot, found in The British Library's 'A Literary Christmas':

"But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to light up home with new brightness..."

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