drop scene
Example Sentences
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The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows in the early days of stage performances in New England.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2019
The drop scene was used in the city’s only theater in the early 1800s to entertain audiences between shows.
From Washington Times • Nov. 13, 2019
No less than thirty-five islands, like beauty spots of a fairy "drop scene," bedeck the silver sheen of its surface.
From The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway by Praeger, Robert Lloyd
The rear was flooded with light, streaming in where the wall had been, and through open doors they saw the houses opposite filling in the background like the drop scene at a theater.
From Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California by Bonner, Geraldine
The overture ends, the drop scene rises, and there is the sea-shore, a long curling bay: the sea heaving under the moon, and breaking upon the beach, and rolling the surf down—the p. 103stage!
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by Wright, William Aldis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
