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Sentence Examples Then the partitioning curtain bellied out ahead of a draught, and ashes from the fire scudded in among our bare feet. Right from the curtain going up on the opening number, it is clear that Tommy the musical is here to rock Bradford. I thought I was going to a movie, and I thought that when the curtain went up I would see a movie screen. The curtain raises on the opening scene with the cast gathered front of stage to a backdrop of trees, a small camp fire Flickering to one side. Two hold up the curtain that frames the scene, one lays out the child's clothes, and three arrange flowers in his crib. In fact, to listen to her, you would think the flesh hung from her shoulders like swags from a curtain rail. The swags of curtain material draped around the bed add to the mood, recalling colonialists' luxurious homes in the Caribbean islands. Hence the bewildering array of prime-time programmes showing inept plumbers caught on CCTV or grown men making curtain swags out of potato sacks. Grace sat at the spinning wheel in the center of the stage and the curtain rose, to reveal an abandoned Marguerite. He goes into the audience and I go on stage behind the curtain that separates the band from the foyer. Interlining is a wadding which is sewn between the curtain fabric and the lining to make the curtains feel thick and luxurious. A massive red curtain hung over the stage and Anna could hear the orchestra playing down below. The re-cladding uses a mixture of coated aluminium panels, glazing and curtain walling to break up the mass of the building. The building will feature reconstituted stone and quality solar glazing as well as curtain walling. It is finished in white render contrasted with black curtain walling, and with a roof-high atrium in the reception area. Shown will be the full range of Sheerframe windows, curtain walling and the new conservatory roof system. She hobbles out of the curtain with a murderous look on her face and her fist cocked and ready to throw another punch. Where privacy is a concern, invest in lighter curtain fabrics such as lightly woven linens or cottons that have a high degree of translucence. A rail on the ceiling went around the platform where a curtain could be pulled to hide the bed from view. A similar situation was narrowly avoided whilst recently affixing a curtain rail to the wall in the lounge. Show More Sentences The never completed keep is a great round tower divided by a moat from the inner curtain that curves inward to avoid it. Its most remarkable feature is that the large keep is itself protected by further curtain walls. A curtain has been fixed at the eastern end of the shelter as a protection against the driving wind and rain. He walked me on stage, opened the curtain a little bit and pointed to a seat. Imagine a small window with an enormous curtain rod over it that extends far beyond the window frame. She closed the shower curtain and entangled her fingers in her knotty hair. Another yellow robe was hanging from the curtain string, and on the bed was a reed mat. Olga Knipper-Chekhova reeled back in shock and collapsed behind the curtain in confusion and terror. Many of these countries are natural allies of reform and rapid growth, having emerged from behind the iron curtain a decade and a half ago. Skinflint walkers can walk on by the gatehouse and follow the deep ditch that runs outside the high outer curtain of 14 th-century walls. Tureck plays with verve, bringing up the curtain on the second half of the set and reinvigorating our energy for the rest of the play. About 15 minutes later the curtain goes up and high on replenished blood sugar levels, the kids are off again. The deluxe rooms have latticed panels that can be unrolled to reveal a glass curtain that screens the bathroom area. The curtain goes up nightly at 8.30 pm and there are no reserved seats, so it is first come first served. A sudden sound cut him off and he angled his gaze towards the curtain that Aja yanked open. For the first time the audience was allowed behind the curtain of the stage. It works by securing the cord on the curtain tape that is left over after the curtains are gathered. I haven't witnessed as much fussing with curtain tie-backs since I last tuned into Changing Rooms. He is holding a length of curtain material in front of him while a young woman attempts to crawl between his legs. Safety equipment includes driver, passenger and side curtain airbags, and ABS anti-lock brakes with electronic brake force distribution. Show More Sentences The window was blocked completely by a curtain of lianas, and Theo swore he could see a small monkey peering out at him. Six long weeks after bringing the curtain down on an 11-year stay at Swinton, Barrow is like a bear with a sore head. Sumter rang down the curtain on the aristocratic republic the founders had created. It is almost as if that sour 1968 election rang down the curtain on career politicians. He submitted his resignation ringing down the curtain on a week-long drama which had paralysed the functioning of Parliament. She even has a look of Mata Hari, with her hair tamed into a silky curtain that complements her black designer suit and kitten heels. Ashley stepped out from behind the curtain on the stage and tapped on the microphone. He has more than 30 years experience in the industry and offers customers a lot more than just curtain linings. The firm, one of Europe's leading suppliers of curtain linings, has 3,000 customers and 20 agents worldwide. Some untitled works from 1999 consist of a series of swags of satin, attached to curtain rods and installed on a wall. In the living room, a chainmail curtain hung from a metal rod is a fireguard for the aluminium clad fireplace. The vehicle offers numerous safety options, including rollover sensors, side curtain air bags, and electronic stability control. The very first bed on the left hand side had a green curtain pulled around it. Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius. Perry sighed and started to walk behind the stage, where the curtain was closed and he was hid from view. About twenty minutes after they had arrived, a guitar chord was struck from behind the curtain covering the stage. She slipped down off the stage and behind the curtain into the darkness of backstage. The home collection consists of soft furnishing products ranging from bed throws to duvet covers to cushions curtain panels and table linen. Bathrooms have electric showers and a select choice of tiling and shower curtain options. I have no doubt it now hangs over a window as a make-shift curtain or is draped on a wall. Show More Sentences A tatty, threadbare curtain rises to the accompaniment of a circus drum-roll. Miraculously, the skies opened up on Saturday afternoon and golden rays of sunlight dried the stage by curtain time. When the temple curtain is torn, God is no longer confined to the holy of holies. They passed by the blacksmith and toward the curtain wall of the outer bailey. An improvised curtain covered the window between the two rooms, so the intercom was the only means of communication. Soon after, though, the curtain will drop and the media will attempt to marginalize bloggers, hoping they will go away. The first witness to testify yesterday spoke from behind a curtain and had his voice disguised. There was no curtain or a screen to divide the men and women at the prayer. An oval meeting area at the entry can be screened off by a sheer curtain and by pivoting millwork elements for displaying candy. The text calls for a curtain to be drawn, revealing with fine theatricality the living Hermione posing as her statue. The curtain rose on a gigantic bandoneon, the accordion-like instrument that is the backbone of any tango orchestra. Karajan modestly confines himself to initial bows and a last curtain embellished with bouquets. It was the curtain and her husband's fears and warnings which alerted her to the presence of a possible source of seduction. The curtain wall is extra deep in profile to give it a more three-dimensional appearance. The soft palate forms a curtain between the mouth and the throat, or pharynx, to the rear. The shutters were latched and a faint light illuminated the embroidered curtain frills and the white satin duvet folded neatly across the bed. A new bath mat and matching shower curtain and another candle should solve that area's, um, problems. She tossed the towel she'd been drying herself with over the curtain rod and threw on a white, terrycloth bathrobe. He led me to the shower and drew back the curtain to reveal a small white porcelain bathtub. Eventually the stars would burn out and a curtain of frozen darkness would enshroud all existence. Show More Sentences Lily and Eric Clarke found him there one day, draped in an old curtain reciting Shakespeare from memory. And in that spirit, I'm going to be spending a bit of time putting up various hooks to hang mobiles, curtain holdbacks, etc. When the curtain rose next Grace entered alone to begin her first solo, the King of Thule, filling the amphitheatre with her pure seraphic voice. There were twisted bedsteads, snatches of curtain and other remnants of four civilian houses. Where a dark grey curtain had hidden the hills from sight, a rosy glow gradually deepened and suffused every mountain top in sight. Hotel staff have told Scotland on Sunday that the man can be seen with matches deliberately setting the curtain ablaze. The double-skinned glass curtain wall reflects the trees and changing light to become a subtly mutable external membrane. On the very right-hand edge of the painting, the curtain is slightly pulled back to reveal a silver crucifix. She hopes the hook appeals to curtain rail and track manufacturers and the general public alike. Wax curtain rods and tracks before hanging curtains, as this will help them slide more easily. For Miu Miu she went back to the 1950s, with large geometric prints based on curtain and furnishing fabrics, heavy slubbed silk and shantung. During the orchestral interludes, the curtain remains up and characters mime to the music. The wall is tinted a warm gray shade, pink rugs are on the floor and a pink cretonne curtain hangs between the roomy clothes closet and bedroom. The garden was in a yard about thirty meters by sixty, surrounded by the towering curtain wall with inward-facing crenellations. Her victory was an unlikely triumph for a woman who lay backstage crying before the curtain had even gone up. I'd noticed earlier that the alley we share had a lot of bricks scattered around, but a curtain shrouds my view of the actual wall. The vast gold curtain that is still decorated with a herringbone of hammers and sickles rises, the orchestra starts to play, the dancers move. In an Austrian village where distant cowbells are usually the only sound, the curtain has gone up on one of the world's most unusual festivals. The inspectors also found dust on bed frames, bed lamps and bed curtain rails in seven out of ten wards at the hospital. Meanwhile, the drunken man on the other side of the room was struggling to break free of the flimsy curtain that separated us. Show More Sentences The curtain rises with a flourish, stirring Norm's attention out of the room. The flight attendant tied the curtain so business class could not use the offending lavatories! The pink and green gives it a somewhat playful mood, and you could play this up, with a polka-dot shower curtain or towels. They drew aside a thick and heavy curtain that led to another layer of thin curtains. The blackout curtain was cracked on the side and allowed just enough light in to barely see by. Slowly, I got up and lifted the blackout curtain on the right side of my room. The lab is a windowless room with a blackout curtain puffed over the closed door, and when the lights are turned off, it's completely dark. What goes on in the booth is private, no one is peeking around the curtain or looking through two-way mirrors. Two minutes before curtain up, the performer hears the siren call of a proper job in a bank. Once a week, the Midnight pulls back its blue sequinned curtain to reveal a bevy of bodacious babes performing the hits of yesterday and today. The curtain goes up at 8.30 pm and one of the leading parts is played by local man Kevin Lalor Fitzpatrick. Staring out the glass doors I saw that the sleet was, now, a curtain of snow. In fact, as soon as you cross the border into the Netherlands, you run into a curtain of flak and a few squadrons of fighters. A red velvet curtain serves as a door and is patrolled by a neckless bodybuilder in a tuxedo. An unvarying coat of green stretches 20 miles inland, then vanishes under a low curtain of mist. Self-tightening seat belts snug you in place, and inflatable curtain air bags pop out to cushion blows to your head. In the end I came out of Mr Solomon's shop with a velvet curtain and a receipt for a posing chair, which was to be covered with Utrecht velvet. Her long, straight hair fell over her shoulders in a smooth curtain to her waist and framed her face with a startling effect. Position this next to a north facing window with a net curtain between the plant and the glass. At one point he raises a giant mirror from a standing pool and later a ruched curtain rises to reveal the Venusian emperor. Show More Sentences And to clean brass curtain rings, soak them in a hot water and vinegar solution, then buff dry. Experience these burblers and their caboose companions before the last curtain call. Sadly, this spark of vitality leaves the movie long before the curtain falls. The fire alarm deploys a curtain covering the paintings, and then activates the sprinklers. He got his horse from one of the stablemen, and galloped out the curtain wall when the drawbridge was down. I entered from stage right and had a moment or two after the curtain came up before I had to take that first step onto the boards. Once the curtain falls, you'll stagger outside feeling unbalanced, wondering what just happened and what it all means. Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water. The dark hole behind the half-open curtain contributes something extra in underlining the artificiality of the setting. Her hair flowed over her shoulders like a curtain that hid their faces from the world, only left to stare at each other. This is the view from the north caponier along the curtain wall, made of flint reinforced with brick. Agostinho Oliveira will bring the curtain down on his role as caretaker manager in Braga this week. At the end of the road stood a canvas covered caravan and beside it a tiny theatre, a miniature stage with a black curtain backdrop. All she could hear was the steady plop of water dripping from the shower curtain and the faint buzz light-bulbs in the background. The firelighter pushed through their front door set fire to a curtain behind the door and the house quickly filled with smoke. The fireballs grow in intensity until the sky is a curtain of drizzling flame bursts. Once the curtain rises, she claims the stage, instinctively transforming herself into the role she is playing. The glassy expanse of the curtain wall opens the concourse areas to the sky and the drama of arriving and departing aircraft. Dark, inky black clouds swathed over the sun and blotted out the sky like a curtain of stormy nightfall. The youngster converted all six tries and brought down the curtain with a solo effort as the game was about to go into injury time. Show More Sentences On a number of wards bathrooms were separated only by a small curtain or concertina door from the main ward. That lovely grey wispy curtain plant is a cousin of the other well-known and beloved bromeliad, the pineapple. I crouched down over Holly, and drew back the curtain of golden hair to reveal a white, pinched face. The addition of seat bags, curtain bags, knee bags and others will add more fabric, inflators, electronics and housings to the market. He infamously demanded that a curtain be erected in a justice department building to cover two statues. His fearsome set brought the curtain down on a fantastic final day, with some of the major highlights away from the main stage. Leave the shower doors or curtain open after bathing so that it dries faster. Sienna followed him and watched as he walked up to a large curtain along the left wall, drawing it aside to reveal another room. Seconds later he emerged from the dugout for a curtain call to acknowledge the loud cheering and doffed his cap. He will pull down the curtain on his illustrious career on Sunday, May 20-and then make his comeback three weeks later. After quick cooling down, the inceptive sunshade curtain is set to a curled finished sunshade curtain. No doubt with a fat, embarrassed director reluctantly getting onstage for the curtain call. The car comes as standard with a driver's and front passenger's airbag as well as side curtain airbags to prevent injury in side impacts. During a curtain call after a performance at New York's Joyce SoHo Theater, there is a standing ovation. At the curtain call it was almost a revelation, there they all were, four of them. The only curtain on view had been woven by spiders, and their silky cobwebs obscured a stage of damp walls and dusty floors. It was most obvious during the curtain call when the cast looked everywhere but at the audience. Today, over coffee before work, I finally brought down the curtain on a very low period in my life. The veteran defender recently brought down the curtain on an 11-year association with the Bantams but don't expect him to be putting his feet up. The recent death of the Olympian has brought down the curtain on a great life. Show More Sentences Meanwhile, two goals in the last minute brought down the curtain on an amazing 1-1 draw between Montrose and Brechin City at Links Park. I think it was quite fitting that Blackburn Rovers brought down the curtain on this season with a goalless draw at Tottenham on Sunday. The club's longest-serving player will bring down the curtain on 11 years at Valley Parade. It brought down the curtain on a York career which began in 1991 after he signed from New Earswick All Blacks. At worst November 26 will be a night for those seven brave souls to bring down the curtain on what was a marvellous season for Waterford hurling. A dismal week for Wales brought down the curtain on the era of that great player, but who will replace him? Against a painted Antarctic backdrop of glaciers, icebergs and floes, groups of stately Emperor penguins pose like actors at curtain call. That brought down the curtain on the scoring, but there was still another highly entertaining 45 minutes to come. However, her eyes remained trained on the plaque as her hair fell forward to curtain her from public view. She leaned down into the mud and thanked whatever supreme power that still liked her for allowing her hair to curtain her face. And just like that, CNN raised the curtain on the new faces of the network in front of its largest audience since the War. And tonight the curtain will go up for the opening night of the open-air production in Blackpool's Stanley Park. As the curtain rises we are greeted with a luscious scene of thousands of colours, silks and velvets, flowers and feathers, glass and jewels. They snuck in and closed the door behind them, pulling the curtain shut that partitioned the room. Butterflies flew through everyone's stomachs as the curtain rose on the stage. It was as if somebody had lowered the curtain and the actors had fallen out of their roles. The stage is covered with a canvas, as if the scene presented as the curtain rises was captured by a linen frame. Even the cast seems to have been infected by the drab spirit that settles over the stage the moment the curtain rises. This political party will take center stage when the curtain rises on their convention one week from today in Boston. As the curtain rose on the stage, Evan's brain actually functioned the way he had wanted it to for so long. Show More Sentences Externally the edges of the paraboloids form high gables infilled by curtain glazing on a brick plinth. At last, the curtain is raised, and Jackson takes center stage and immediately owns the crowd. The curtain lifted on his theater-in-the-round set to reveal models perched on the white horses of a mirrored carousel. With this new series, Klein intends to pull the curtain back and challenge the public's perception. A window lay open, and the curtain rippled gently in the night wind. Of course, in Hollywood, nothing ever ends until the curtain comes down. Cut simple holiday shapes out of paper or felt, then hang with thread from curtain rods, hanging lamps, doorways or over the outside of a lampshade. Rolling over and stretching, she reached for the nearest curtain and threw it back, letting in a dark light, due to the overcast skies and rainy weather. With steps and risers of mild steel, the stair is contained by a great vertical curtain of steel uprights and rods on one side, and wooden shelving on the other. Cheesecloth is the primary window covering, draped over curtain rods to create layers sheer enough to let light in, but dense enough to provide privacy. The under 12's brought down the curtain on another season of mini rugby when participating in the Brian Fitzgerald memorial Blitz at Thomond Park on Sunday last. He escaped by shimmying down a window curtain from the second story. This neat device allows a smooth transition between the numerous scenes but the curtain goes up and down like a yo-yo and becomes wearisome after a while. As the curtain falls for the last time, we see a young woman holding a dying man in her arms. When the curtain rises after intermission, the set is bare and the main character finds himself alone. Finally the shroud of thick trees abruptly ended, just as a curtain would, and there before them stood a yard of dark green-blue grass shimmering in already full sunlight. Certainly at the curtain call they both wore a mixed expression of disbelief at their reception and genuine delight at the effect they had created in the theatre. This one can be a little harsh, but I know we all felt better about the world around us when the Fenway crowd gave the pitcher a curtain call in his last appearance there. A half-full plastic water bottle balances on the ledge below a dirty mesh curtain tied in a knot. At first he'd wondered if the clean-cut fly boys who risked their lives making low altitude parachute drops behind the iron curtain knew what their cargo was. Show More Sentences And the light and curtain crews both appeared to be in on the secret. A riot of leaves walls off a bend in the river, a curtain of vines cascades from impossibly tall mango trees. The lights go down, the curtain comes up and we're back in variety, all caked panstick, female dancers in fishnet tights and cutaway tunics, high kicks, sequins and sparkles. Instead of being strung along the building edges, the offices are grouped in pods with their backs to the cross-connections between the labs and the curtain wall. Decked in pitch-black garb, a flintlock pistol held tightly in each hand, Nathaniel watched as the dim curtain of midday crept over the autumn scarlet of the forest. But when he goes behind the curtain and sheds the costume, a flinty, thin-skinned, immature man who has never taken responsibility for his mistakes emerges. Plus there was only a flimsy shower curtain between the two of us. There was a curtain of blue beads and green and blue shells threaded with shimmering silver yarn, turning the doorway into a magical entrance to a seascape. The curtain is drawn until late March when the graceful sky dances and twittering music return as chimney swifts ply the skies in search of food and each other. Before the curtain rose, the playwright sheepishly greeted his fans at the door, wearing a baseball cap and shuffling his feet. As I had prepared for the curtain call, side stage, the dancers busily congratulating me and smiles coming from all corners of the theatre, thumbs up you name it everything! With that, Sheena left the screen and the curtain was pulled back. I can't wait to hang up my cobalt blue shower curtain with the gold stars. The car has seven airbags, which include side curtain airbags and a large new side airbag for the front seats that protects the torso, abdomen and pelvis. An ultra-fine muslin or nylon curtain will do the job perfectly. It was mid autumn and the leaves were already starting to swirl around me as a harsher wind blew, creating almost a curtain of color each time the breeze came. A few minutes later Grace rejoined the cast on stage for the curtain call, stepping forwards with Faust to curtsy once, twice, three times to a deafening applause. He sings sweetly behind a curtain of organs and electronic keyboards. It will be a vicious irony if a far-right Home Secretary is allowed to take the curtain call for the onstage achievements of predecessors who loathe his approach. So what lies behind the curtain of official Washington at the highest levels of government in a time of nonstop war? Show More Sentences We are told that each curtain needs to be the width of the track or pole, but this is only an approximate measurement as curtains are made to the nearest half width of fabric. No denying a certain mystique about the man behind the curtain at headquarters in Beaverton. Vaguely, he heard church bells from the city strike their hours, their clear sound muted by the snow and by the rose curtain draped partially over the study window. That night, because Jocelyn's character didn't appear until the third scene, she stood on the side of the stage behind the curtain and peeked out quickly. They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks. I walked over towards the windows and started to unravel the gold tasseled ropes so that the curtain would prevent any light from shining through. I had always associated this fishery with a bay in Canada, in British Columbia, that is closed off with a curtain of seine netting after the spawny herring have entered it. Volvo safety engineers have perfected a head protection inflatable curtain for convertible cars which will appear in the next generation of the company's convertibles. One is to be performed with a black curtain across the proscenium arch with holes cut in it so that the actors can shout their lines unwinkingly at the audience. John peeked out the curtain window, saw me, and immediately opened it and pulled me inside. A huge crowd packed into Mullaghmore on Sunday for the annual All-Ireland Donkey Derby, which brought down the curtain on the very successful Lobster Festival. Around each bed was a light, curtain screens, a locker and a cupboard. Often the photographs are shot in bedrooms, next to a window with a curtain blowing from it, conveying the isolation of adolescence and the yearning for what lies beyond. The building service core is a solid, while transparency is achieved through variations in a curtain wall composed of vision, spandrel, and fritted glass. Its findings might be that bit easier to live with if we at least knew that it was bringing down the curtain on a particularly distasteful chapter in Irish politics. His announcement made at the convention to select candidates for that ballot brings the curtain down on a political career stretching back to the sixties. The little casita is as empty as a torn pocket, and the status-earning satellite dish he never even used is now nearly hidden by a curtain of beautiful, uncut weeds. If there had been collective culpability for that scrappiness, there were glints of individual excellence to raise the curtain on the second half. The inquest heard she was found hanging by a plastic shower curtain in her cell and was declared dead on arrival at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. He suddenly convulsed as his stomach heaved a foul liquid up his throat, which gushed violently from his mouth and viscously trickled down the curtain of his hair. Show More Sentences Music Music Music was short enough to leave you wanting more, long enough to keep you interested to the very last note, without those tedious curtain breaks. I've already binned the flamboyant curtain pelmets from two rooms and can't wait to get my hands on the oversized brown smoke-glass lamp shade with twiddly gold bits. Clean cotton curtains in the same pale shades fitted to curtain poles to give them lift, or else wood-slatted blinds softened by voile curtains, add the finishing touch. After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem. He has plenty of time on his hands now that Sheffield Wednesday have brought down the curtain on his injury-ravaged four-year spell at Hillsborough. Mary pushed aside the curtain and stood looking out into the front yard. His skin sensed the suffocating stillness of the confessional as he heard the thick curtain sway close behind him, cloistering him inside the booth. The curtain fell as the orchestra played a transitional passage of music. Andrew quickly stepped into action and stamped out the the smoldering tip of the curtain and looked back to glare at Char who was only smiling sheepishly. By 1980, the Glock family was living atop their factory, making curtain rods as well as weapons. Yukiko enters, and sees the empty stage, curtain folded across. When the curtain rises, the stage looks like a slaughterhouse. How many romantic misunderstandings and happy-clappy showstoppers must we endure before longing for the curtain to drop in front of those beaming, ambitious faces? On my darkroom door I hung up a lightproof curtain on a wire about 20 cm above the door, so that it goes well beyond the dimensions of the door at the top and at the sides. He had ended up in a clearing, with white willows leaning to towards the water, trailing their long leafy curtain of fingers through the cool refreshing spring. Within his elaborate composition, this pale blue curtain ended up by invading the background space of the scene and almost completely concealed it. Fix the shelf to the wall above the curtain track using the brackets. The main entrance to the complex is on St Andrew Square, set within a vertical band of glazed curtain walling that runs the full height of the building. Then, after the intermission, the curtain parted and The Band appeared. Can he, will he, reshape the Supreme Court and ring down the curtain on the revolution it has been imposing upon this country, illegitimately, for 50 years? Show More Sentences Border ring down the curtain on their home fixtures today when they play Western Province in a Standard Bank limited-overs day-night match at Buffalo Park. The insurrectionists seemed actors in a surreal episode of revolutionary play-acting in which the curtain was about to fall. Another symptom is the appearance of a curtain over the field of vision. After Mary walks off the set and the lights dim, the cast returns for a curtain call. The Republicans, however, sat with tenebrous expressions that matched the black curtain hiding their legs. My father did not want the audience leaving with such a sad feeling so he orchestrated a curtain call of gradual, joyful clapping. When you took your curtain call the other night there was such a look of innocence and gratitude on your face. I sighed and took one final look at the sky and then went inside my bedroom, shutting my window and my curtain so that I couldn't look outside anymore. He pulls back the curtain to reveal a magnificent charade in which everyone is wittingly or unwittingly complicit in the world's most extended re-enactment. Not surprisingly, the audience met their curtain calls with screams of appreciation. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. He clumbled for his fametold sword, Fear becringing on his thoughts, And steadened by the curtain cord, He breaged against the ghosten slaught. She turned off the bed-head light in this tiny, low-ceiled rolling home of hers, raised the curtain and watched the specks of light streak by. A curtain lecture is worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering. The curtain twitcher who saw the incident exclaimed in detail what had happened and it was pretty obvious that Burnett did not mean to kill him. Its brown curtain was only half drawn, disclosing the elegant legs, clad in transparent black, of a female seated inside. Alas, we are reduced to desperately seeking Toto, in need of someone to go behind the curtain and tell us that the wizard's name is enronomics. The houselights were dimmed as the curtain went up for the start of the play. According to tradition, a Praetorian named Gratus found him hiding behind a curtain and suddenly declared him princeps. The coup d'etat also constituted an iron curtain for the social scientists. Show More Sentences Below it is the more fleshy languette or curtain valve which closes the incurrent siphonal opening when required. She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water. Above the stone curtain wall's foundations, one or more footing courses were laid. Where the width of the curtain wall is stated, it is in reference to the width above the offset. Between the Wakefield and Lanthorn Towers, the innermost ward's wall also serves as a curtain wall for the inner ward. Between 1339 and 1341, a gatehouse was built into the curtain wall between Bell and Salt Towers. This new phase took the form of a shell keep with all the buildings constructed against the curtain wall. The bailey was incorporated into the new castle and is surrounded by stone curtain walls. When Warwick Castle was rebuilt in the reign of King Henry II it had a new layout with the buildings against the curtain walls. To protect them from undermining, curtain walls were sometimes given a stone skirt around their bases. Walkways along the tops of the curtain walls allowed defenders to rain missiles on enemies below, and battlements gave them further protection. An earthen bank could be piled behind a castle's curtain wall to absorb some of the shock of impact. Once ditches around a castle were partially filled in, these wooden, movable towers could be pushed against the curtain wall. Hamlet, believing it is Claudius, stabs wildly, killing Polonius, but pulls aside the curtain and sees his mistake. Fonteyn and Nureyev became known for inspiring repeated frenzied curtain calls and bouquet tosses. He also gave nightly speeches after his curtain call as Hamlet at the Barbican in London, asking for donations to help Syrian refugees. The Hopman Cup, a third competition for mixed teams, carries less prestige, but is a popular curtain raiser to the tennis season. Several curtain antennas there have been identified as being used for these transmissions. It's the first time after more than 2 years that the curtain in my brain has gone up. Somewhere an iron curtain had gone up, baring a painted one, with nymphs and nenuphars. Find more words! 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