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
"It will cost about twenty thousand cold, before we ring up the curtain," explained Weldon, skillfully calculating with the aid of a pencil and a pad of paper.
From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie
The world is waiting to ring up the curtain for your star part in life.
From Supreme Personality by Croft, Delmer Eugene
"Shall I ring up the curtain?" he asked quietly.
From A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life by Janis, Elsie
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.
