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. . . such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents. Then the shouting and the struggling, and the onslaught that was made on the defenceless porter! Then scaling him, with chairs for ladders, to dive into his pockets, despoil him of brown-paper parcels, hold on tight by his cravat, hug him round the neck, pommel his back and kick his legs in irrepressible affection! The shouts of wonder and delight with wich the development of every package was received! The terrible announcement that the baby had been taken in the act of putting a doll's frying-pan into his mouth, and was more than suspected of having swallowed a fictitious turkey, glued on a wooden platter! The immense relief of finding this false alarm! The joy, and gratitude, and ecstasy! They are indescribable alike. It is enough that by degrees the children and their emotions got out of the parlor, and by one stair at a time up to the top of the house; where they went to bed, and so subsided.

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Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol and The Night Before Christmas

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Oh, for heaven__ sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!__ bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry__ side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley.__h honestly,_ said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. __ell, on your own head be it!__he great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn__ help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

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J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix