“There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.”

— Kenneth Grahame, book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4, "Mr. Badger"

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