ring up the curtain
Example Sentences
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In that hope I withdraw and ring up the curtain.
From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard
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
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.
Truly, the gods must have created us for their amusement; and when Olympus palls, they ring up the curtain on some such screaming comedy as was that.
From The Deluge by Phillips, David Graham
