ring up the curtain
Example Sentences
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But not to detain you longer on the threshold, I will ring up the curtain, and travel with you in this varied journey.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 by Various
In that hope I withdraw and ring up the curtain.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
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.
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
"That's to ring up the curtain," said Mignon.
From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan
