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    curtain


    curtained


    curtaining


    curtains


    1. the metaphorical net curtain that hid the outer reaches of the old melodies from His


    2. She sets the scene and we all walk through the lines, then we have to do it properly … which, in this case, means Andy and I being in a clinch as the curtain goes up so that we can be surprised by other characters walking in on us


    3. Obviously, there’s no curtain but we need to do it properly


    4. Specialises in household fabrics … heavyweight curtain fabrics, that sort of thing


    5. from house to curtain wall, with my four legged helpers


    6. Steam rises above the shower curtain,


    7. urban curtain of security, the sound


    8. I squeaked open the door a couple of inches, pushed aside a beaded curtain and peered inside


    9. The moment I have been dreading for years … the inevitable final curtain to the story which began when I met Alastair


    10. Leona’s final curtain, her final bow is taken at the end of the Procedure Show

    11. He continued on until he reached the double doors of the curtain wall and


    12. Ted reaches up, turns on the electric shower and pulls the shower curtain down the length of the bath


    13. They disappeared behind the curtain across the alcove and in moments they carried out a large rectangular box, a sister on each end holding a handle


    14. On the side facing the drawers and cabinet of the trunk was an embroidered stiff curtain which could be untethered at the bottom and pulled over the top of the trunk's side


    15. So moving a bit closer, she pushed back the curtain for a better look


    16. Turning but not releasing the curtain, she asked looking directly into his face, "You can see it too, can't you?" He never answered


    17. Jim's hands fell limp to his side and he turned away, returning the curtain to its original position, she also turned away


    18. black circular curtain around her


    19. ” She turned and took her seat to the left of the stage and the curtain was 'raised


    20. But the canines stood uneasily in front of the curtain,

    21. Roman plucked the torch from the ground next to the curtain


    22. " He added before pulling the curtain back to call the nurse and to order x-rays


    23. She watched as the heavy clouds dropped over the valley below, sucking everything, that it came in touch with, into a white curtain


    24. This culture has as much cropland as the Soviet Union had land at its height, going all the way to the iron curtain


    25. " A wall of darkness descended as he closed the curtain


    26. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!


    27. A castle comprised of a circular curtain wall that was forty feet high and stretched out through ten city blocks


    28. As he had expected, once within, Brice saw that the interior of the curtain wall not only had a walkway lining its top, but a stone stairway leading to a midlevel causeway which was likewise lined with crossbowmen and arrow slits


    29. things occurring beyond the curtain


    30. chest and wrapped within the shower curtain

    31. To see a shower curtain in your dream indicates that you are not fully expressing your emotions


    32. One after the other of the mining installations began going kablooey! It appeared that a full scale worker's revolt was underway and our ship showed up as the curtain went up on the first act


    33. ” she beamed, “It was what the Captain just said that really shredded the one curtain keeping me from seeing the end of this little riddle: 'nothing stays the same'!” For Jista that was it and enough


    34. As he got into the lukewarm water he thought he heard a rustle behind the curtain of the massage nook


    35. curtain and there was Osama! Shadowed


    36. Finally, the curtain of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom


    37. I stepped down onto the platform and it seemed to be a dirty shade of grey and with the rain sweeping across in a curtain of silver droplets it was dismal and depressing I shivered for I was unused to the cold and had no greatcoat for warmth


    38. Isa 40:22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:


    39. The orange curtain was still closed over the basement window when Jack rang Rosemary's bell


    40. At least she could shake the curtain and let him know she was getting up

    41. The only thing in place was the orange curtain covering the kitchen


    42. Eric drew the curtain back


    43. And now the end is near, and so I face the final curtain


    44. Beyond the curtain on the left, the arena lurked, yearning for his blood


    45. He knew he should push aside the velvet curtain and step out into the arena


    46. He put his hand out to the curtain but simply rested it there, afraid of what would greet him once he pulled it aside


    47. bridge was plunged into inky darkness, a thick, black curtain that was pierced only by the stabbing,


    48. curtain across the opening


    49. The rains had restarted, and miasma hung over the valley like a heavy pall, but toward evening the misty curtain was suddenly drawn aside, the skies turned blue as if by magic, and a most glorious panorama lay revealed to our wondering gaze


    50. Walking to the bathroom he stepped into the bath, pulling the shower curtain closed behind him, wishing he had enough spare cash to have a separate shower put in, rather than the over-bath one he had to make do with














































    1. Dressed in swanky velveteen of burgundy and rust, her windows were curtained from top to bottom, giving a distant effect of luxurious chic


    2. The next Sunday evening, with both of the Roach boys quite worn out by the wheeling of barrow loads of hardcore into the brick curtained hole where the new patio was taking shape, Helen Roach suggested her husband go down to the pub for a couple of beers


    3. The bed was low but curtained


    4. curtained hole where the new patio was taking shape, Helen Roach


    5. A large claw foot tub with shining steel shower head, faucet and knobbed valve, all curtained in white linen greeted her immediate gaze


    6. lay on straw beds along the wall – curtained off for


    7. windows was curtained off


    8. Em chimed in from her curtained nook


    9. A matronly woman perched atop a barstool that threatened to collapse under her bulk guarded a curtained doorway


    10. All of a sudden Bernie appeared from a curtained alcove further up the hall

    11. Potentates discussed their world-shattering plans under the curtained arches


    12. This was located through another curtained archway behind the thrones


    13. ” He indicated with his thumb a doorway behind him, curtained off


    14. It was not occupied, however, but a rather fussy-looking old man came up to me and urged me into one of the rooms that were curtained off from the throne room


    15. methodically as they drew toward the curtained portal to a


    16. a curtained area of the shelves


    17. He could see none in the lobby, but there in the dark curtained corners they might find a way


    18. When decorated with flimsy pelmets, back-cloth and curtains, it became a stage ten yards wide and one deep, with two separate curtained areas and two curtained entrances


    19. A curtained window was the silhouette of a witch hat scaring and scratching her warts


    20. It was a large, dimly lit room with a television flickering in front of the curtained window, and a bed facing it

    21. At the present moment the stage was curtained off with red velvet curtains


    22. Before a curtained alcove stood a man eyeing them intently


    23. He stood motionless as a statue, his gaze fixed on a curtained door through which he knew that a culminating horror would presently appear


    24. Slowly he swung his great head about and stared at Tascela who posed negligently in the curtained doorway, one hand on her smooth hip


    25. " continues the same voice as armed soldiers step out from behind the curtained wall and aim their rifles directly at Grailem


    26. It was behind a curtained entrance


    27. The curtained burst open and Lezura stepped inside; hair tied into a bun at the back with a pink and white cloth, and wearing a cotton white blouse with brown hems and black leathery tights


    28. One corner of the tent was curtained off


    29. There, closeted away in the curtained off area, was Hench, the big fat toad who had previously owned the slave-market


    30. There was also a baking oven set into one of the side walls and a small area curtained off in one corner that contained a bathtub

    31. With a bellow of rage, Joe leaped at Monty and both fell back out of the curtained area


    32. The left hand side was curtained with tree-trunks, but the right side was


    33. So he erected curtained tents from the snowy mountain


    34. on 3 sides of the walls were boards which could be dismantled, and the other side was curtained


    35. From a curtained window that opened upon an interior court we could catch strains from the cabaret singers below in the main dining-room


    36. It was a bit strange as it was curtained off


    37. pointed to the curtained


    38. Ganesh pointed at the curtained entrance to the classroom


    39. Douglas stepped through a curtained door at the back of the


    40. “Definitely looks like a party,” whispered Trixie, as dozens of shadows moved behind the curtained windows of the house

    41. He picked up a pile of clothing and handed it to me and then gestured toward another curtained off area


    42. I pulled open the ward’s double doors and jacked minds to look the other way as I strode past curtained beds and medical equipment


    43. Emily looked over toward the curtained window and then back to Kyle, “What time is it?”


    44. Only at one point--it may be Acton, Holloway, Kensal Rise, Caledonian Road--does the name mean shops where you buy things, and houses, in one of which, down to the right, where the pollard trees grow out of the paving stones, there is a square curtained window, and a bedroom


    45. her sinful, tanned heart--for the child who fetches her is the fruit of sin, and should have been in bed, curtained, asleep, instead of hearing in the lamplight her mother's wild song, where she sits against the Bank, singing not for coppers, with her dog against her breast


    46. There was no answer, so I went around back to her yard that is fenced in for Rocky and curtained with shrubbery


    47. A pale distress was already on Tess's face, and she pulled her curtained hood further over it


    48. Straddling him in a curtained room, bending down to lick away the worry


    49. Light through the curtained door striped her ear and jawline, but her face, turned toward the end of the block, was invisible


    50. Charlie clasped his hands and rocked forward and closed his eyes, but in the velvety dark behind his eyelids, like a curtained theater where the lights have gone out, he still saw the Savior Jesus Christ, with a swimmer’s shoulders and an expression like longing










    1. Karla’s stared down at the table, red hair curtaining her face, and when she finally looked up, Lucie could see the tears flowing down her cheeks


    2. There were high stone walls curtaining a central keep, towers stationed around the circumference, all in battle-ship grey


    3. "Constance," I said at last to the dark shape on the tall shelf with the shadows of rain curtaining it


    1. ‘You wouldn’t mind her being here, Mum?’ he asked, fingering the grotty curtains which still hang at the windows, then wiping his hands on his jeans


    2. The curtains are beyond redemption, of course, and they go straight in a bin bag


    3. I’m sure there are some curtains in the roof which would look okay in here … the ones I used to have in the dining room at the old house … I reckon they would be long enough … but it would depend on what colour scheme they decide on


    4. Heavy orange curtains are draped across windows


    5. room through a gap in the drawn curtains


    6. With the curtains drawn across the large glass


    7. hunter in her soul, she opened the curtains, stepped out onto the balcony and gazed


    8. With the night sky calling forth the hunter in her soul, she opened the curtains, stepped out onto the balcony and gazed down the dusty little lane that ran towards the local coastal strip, with its bright lights, its noise and its scurrying human possibilities


    9. The cottage was a nice little house, she decided as she tidied up the curtains in the front room


    10. behind sea walls and curtains,

    11. nightmares behind the curtains,


    12. But down around the port, came a more thriving version of life in shiny, tiled kitchens, and white lace curtains flapping a gentle hint of an incoming breeze that would help to keep the flies at bay


    13. the twitch of curtains,


    14. He sneaked into the living room, which was lit by brilliant white moonlight streaming in from a night bright sky through windows that had never seen any curtains


    15. ‘Other manufacturies concentrate on fabric for household items … curtains and bedding, for example, but our looms are not large enough for that scale of material


    16. She threw open the curtains, letting the room flood with glorious summer sunshine, and as she stood there, silhouetted in her curlers and her power-shouldered dressing gown, she started to sing


    17. Reluctantly, he shuts the curtains then comes over to me and puts his arms around me


    18. Ken, shocked and concerned about the strange way in which his wife had been behaving lately, carried her back up to the bedroom, where he made sure that the curtains were drawn and that the windows were safely closed and locked, taking the key with him to ensure Helen’s safety


    19. night bright sky through windows that had never seen any curtains


    20. 'I'd like the patient to sleep for six hours,' the doctor told me as he drew the curtains

    21. The sound of running footsteps had already caused curtains to


    22. curtains and buying things in the end of season sales, before, all of


    23. Create windows where you wish to be seen and curtains


    24. I stare at the curtains wondering what Dave is doing


    25. Standing up, I grab hold of the curtains, and yank them back; sunlight floods the room


    26. He has a king size bed with a very tasteful throw covering it which matches the curtains


    27. and heavy curtains which offered a certain amount of both privacy


    28. up to the bedroom, where he made sure that the curtains were


    29. One of the curtains is drawn to keep the brightness of the late morning sun off the television screen


    30. The windows on either side of the reassuringly immovable cast iron franklin stove were dressed in expertly woven curtains of traditional Shoshone patterns and colors, augmented by the appealing designs in the hanging blankets and spacious area rug over the polished hardwood floor

    31. The curtains are still open, the table lamp is still on, and half a tumbler of Irish sits on the occasional table beside the chair


    32. The room is in half light, protected from the outside world by shabby brown curtains that are almost drawn together


    33. There are two round porthole windows, which have been covered over with rose pattern curtains


    34. Hipolyta and Titania had begun keeping the curtains over the workshop alcove closed all the time, but as they also made sure no one was usually around to notice when they went in and out, it didn't raise any suspicions


    35. He pulls the curtains closed and wraps his arms around Carol


    36. It was as he had left it except that someone had opened one of the curtains


    37. The curtains in the room were drawn, the room lit by the faint illumination coming through the fabric


    38. She deliberately left the curtains open last night so that she could see the stars through the window


    39. Behind him the lustrous, inlaid paneled cabinets, crimson velvet curtains, and brass knobs and fittings of the state room glowed warmly


    40. The curtains in the bay window are closed but the tell-tale haze of passive entertainment sparks through the cracks

    41. He sits rigid in his chair, staring at the open curtains


    42. The curtains are open and bright sunlight is crashing into the sitting room through the conservatory


    43. There are no curtains at the window of the downstairs room in the old farmhouse and the duvet is pulled up to the headboard


    44. Filtering through the curtains it shines on your hair;


    45. The yellow lace curtains defused even that


    46. An observant minor player in the wings, behind the curtains of progress,” answered Harold modestly


    47. They went thru curtains of color and sound, always the same song


    48. It had its own window with a tiny balcony, rich carvings and curtains around the bed, which was raised on a low dias with round columns in the corners


    49. The naked man rinses his hair as some swirls down the drain, turns off the water, and steps out of the tub through parted shower curtains


    50. It was rather odd that the curtains were still closed; normally they were just left open













































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    Synonyms for "curtain"

    curtain drape drapery mantle pall concealment cover blind decoration hanging portiere shade shroud

    "curtain" definitions

    hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)


    any barrier to communication or vision


    provide with drapery