ring up the curtain
Example Sentences
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Truly, the gods must have created us for their amusement; and when Olympus palls, they ring up the curtain on some such screaming comedy as was that.
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham
She remembered perfectly the first sign he had given of it—it had been like the bell that was to ring up the curtain upon the real drama of their life.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry
In that hope I withdraw and ring up the curtain.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
We have been waiting here a month now, and I hope you are going to ring up the curtain soon.
From Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Merriman, Henry Seton
Lay you a sovereign to a sixpence, Mr. Narkom, that I solve the riddle of that glass-room before they ring up the curtain of any theatre in London to-night.
From Cleek of Scotland Yard Detective Stories by Hanshew, Thomas W.
