act drop
Example Sentences
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All this will be passing, as it were, behind the act drop of our first experience, behind this first picture of the urbanised Urseren valley.
From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
The act drop was let down; there was a stir throughout the theatre; young Ogilvie turned to him,— "Don't you see who has come into that corner box up there?"
From Macleod of Dare by Black, William
