dropped curtain

The last flush of amber vanished from the sky with the speed of a dropped curtain.

Through the dropped curtain they saw the world brokenly; the light in the cave was sunken and dim, the air cold.

Just what ruin lies behind this dropped curtain is uncertain.

Beyond the dropped curtain he could hear the strains of the music and the murmur in the audience.

They were all living radiances against the dropped curtain of the world.