In fact, he was still eating cheese when the curtain went up and munched cheese at intervals all through the laboratory scene.
As Mazzoleni came up to the window and the curtain went down there was a dead silence.
A trai--" when I was overcome with an impulse of laughter and the curtainhad to be rung down!
It used to be pretty to see her from a box where I could look at her behind the scenes compose herself before taking a curtain call.
I had over twentycurtain calls that evening--the largest number I ever had.
I have been looking and peeping through the hole in the curtain and from the wings, but I cannot seem to discover where she is sitting.
When I was singing I was always in a fever before the curtain rose.
Since the curtain had fallen the space in front of him made a sort of dark patch fascinating and terrible on the obscure landscape.
But she did not show herself any more; she remained there behind the curtain which quivered tremulously now and then.
And the man recoiled before the apparition--he retreated to his bed and sank down upon it, knowing well that the little one had entered the room, and that she now was standing behind the curtainwhich presently moved.
But one day, when she opened her eyes, she saw Julien standing beside the bed, and the curtain which hid everything from her was suddenly drawn aside, and she remembered what had happened.
As he sat in his armchair, rather late one evening when he could not sleep, he thought he saw the curtain of his window move.
The curtain still moved--unquestionably, it did move this time; he could no longer have any doubt about it.
Then he glanced with terror, first at the revolver on the table, and next at the curtain which hid his window.
As time goes on, there comes a faint scuffling at the door; the heavy curtain is lifted a little and falls again.
Hurrying to the door, the old squaw thrusts the curtain aside, and there she beholds the child staggering under her load of wood, stiff and helpless from the cold.
Even close at hand, they were visible for only a moment before being hidden by the smoke of the German shell-curtain over what remained of the trenches.
The machine guns joined in the chorus and a curtain of steel and fire was placed in front of our troops and rained upon the guns and cannon of the enemy.
God grant that in my day at least that curtain may not rise!
The curtain will be lowered for a few minutes between the two scenes.
Holding on to the window curtain and watching THE DEAN.
Goes to the window and tries to find the cord by which to draw the curtain aside.
Through a hole in the curtain she could see and hear everything.
A curtain hung from the ceiling cuts off one-third of the room.
As the Eunuch was speaking with the king, behold, the maiden raised a corner of the curtain that shut in the litter, so she might look upon the speaker, and saw the king.
Then he taught them what they should say to him and how they should do with him and withdrawing to a retired room,[FN#24] let down a curtain before himself and slept.
Moreover, he caused set up for Arwa a pavilion[FN#196] in the courtyard of his palace, and she entered it and let down the curtain before herself.
Presently the Eunuch went out before him and the little white slaves behind him, and they ceased not going till they raised the curtain and brought him into the hall of judgment and the throne-room of the Caliphate.
Let 'em alone, and draw the curtain close; We shall hear more anon.
Slowly the great curtainof purple velvet rolled back upon a scene of medieval horror.
Yet a sharp-eyed passer-by might have noticed a tiny thread of light peeping through the drawn curtain of a second floor window.
How marvel at the dusky glimmering red, With which my closed fingers thou hadst made Like rainy clouds that curtain the sun's bed!
A curtain closed on the prospect, but if memory was resolved that it would not be drowned, he had at any rate dosed it with something fresh to occupy its digestion.
He lifted the pallid head over one arm, miserably helpless and perplexed, but his anxiety concerning Rhoda's personal safety in that sea of strife prompted him to draw back the curtain a little, and he stood exposed.
Her eyes were bent on a particular box, across which a curtain was hastily being drawn.
The gentleman pulled Miss Pringle behind the curtain when he saw Mag coming, and I couldn't see her any more; but I should think she must have been more puzzled than ever, poor lady.
The curtain fell, and the audience, with one accord, rose to their feet and made for the doors.
I am an honest working girl, and the curtain goes up at eight-thirty!
The new-comer paused to draw the curtain back to its usual folds, covering the door, and then he turned round, and with a hasty exclamation of surprise became aware of the group in the hall.
There were few signs of grandeur in the hall: a little show of silver on the buffet; heavy old velvet curtain with tarnished embroideries; some carved furniture of noble workmanship, marked with the three crescents of the family arms.
And at that moment the heavy curtainwas drawn, and Mr Melville's head put out calling Peter.
He stood against thecurtain with a stern expression on his face, his eyes half closed, his lips sometimes moving.
One would have liked to be able to pitchfork the son out of the story, because he will talk, and, after the supreme situation, to drop the curtain on the analysis of Queen Eleanor's state of mind.
Rowland bent over and took off his shoes and then moved stealthily to the window where he stood behind the curtain peering out into the obscurity of the garden.
The daylight filtered slowly through the curtain of the carriage and still Von Stromberg slept.
The ideal treatment for the ordinary single window is a soft curtain of some thin white stuff hung flat and full against the glass.
You will observe that all of these windows have glass curtains of plain white muslin, no matter what the inside curtain may be.
The curtain should hang in straight folds to the window sill, escaping it by half an inch or so.
The two windows in this room are obviously windows by day, but at night two sliding doors of mirrors are drawn, just as a curtain would be drawn, to fill the window spaces.
This curtain should have an inch and a half hem at the bottom and a narrow hem at the sides.
I feel sure that no woman of really good taste could prefer a cheap curtain of imitation lace to a simple one of white swiss-muslin.
The one splendid thing in the room was a curtainof soft green damask that was pulled at night to cover the group of windows.
It goes without saying that such a window requires no curtain other than one that is to be drawn at night.
His performance in the "nightmare play" of The Bells is pronounced to be a triumph of merit; the sense of relief experienced on the fall of the curtain was in itself the highest praise.
The black curtain of the past shall never be lifted by my hand unless--unless Andrew Fraser forces me to strike hard at his dead brother's paper card house of honorable deeds!
As if a black curtain had dropped from before their eyes the three adventurers beheld a scene that halted them in their tracks.
When he had finished his verse, Nuzhat al-Zaman lifted up a skirt of the litter-curtain and looked at him.
This is my interpretation of her signs and, could I come and go at will, I would bring thee and her together in shortest time, and curtainyou both with my skirt.
