act drop

Example Sentences

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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

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)