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The metal hinge’s folding point can sometimes snag hair or pinch a finger if you’re not careful.

From The Verge • Aug. 8, 2022

Little has yet been changed, I think; The shutters are shut,—no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Little has yet been changed, I think: The shutters are shut, no light may pass Save two long rays through the hinge's chink.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert