ring up the curtain

Example Sentences

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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.

But even then we were accustomed to ring up the curtain, and so I look upon myself as a mere overture or prelude to the good thing, the word-painting, which will follow.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

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

"That's to ring up the curtain," said Mignon.

From Nine Little Goslings by Coolidge, Susan

In that hope I withdraw and ring up the curtain.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard