ring up the curtain

Example Sentences

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"Shall I ring up the curtain?" he asked quietly.

From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie

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

But proof's what it's best to have before you ring up the curtain.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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.