Some viewers professed actual uncertainty about whether or not the goat was real; others supposed, tongue-in-cheek, "that only the front half of the goat was real and that the rest formed part of the back-cloth" (30). ❋ Unknown (2005)
In one scene, where Berma stands motionless for a moment, her arm raised to the level of a face bathed, by some piece of stagecraft, in a greenish light, before a back-cloth painted to represent the sea, the whole house broke out in applause; but already the actress had moved, and the picture that I should have liked to study existed no longer. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was like a worn-out back-cloth in some provincial theatre. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1958)
Suddenly I saw it-a tiny flare of light against the vast yellow back-cloth of Jupiter. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1956)
"That's my bit, " said Sid, showing Dick a horse standing in one of the fields painted on the back-cloth. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1953)
A back-cloth had been unrolled and hung over the wooden wall of the barn at the back of the stage. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1953)
There was the orchestra against the back-cloth, rendering selections from popular Pekin revues on the drum, cymbal and one-stringed fiddle. ❋ Various (N/A)
My first impression of New York was that of a faded back-cloth in a melodrama; but when you get upon the stage, or, in other words, into the streets, you find yourself amid a transformation scene of wonderful activity and brilliancy. ❋ Harry Furniss (N/A)
There was life, swarming life, everywhere, in the corners, behind the back-cloth. ❋ J. Andr�� Castaigne (N/A)
When she had completed one dance, a new back-cloth fell, and she danced again and yet again. ❋ Thomas Burke (1915)
An electric bell trilled, the limelights shut off, with a jerk that made the eyes ache, a back-cloth soared aloft and another glided down into its place, the comedian took two, three, four calls, then vanished into a horde of dim figures scuttling about in the gloom. ❋ Valentine Williams (1914)
She took her place, at present a most inconspicuous one, on the back-cloth before which Michael's life was acted, towards which, when no action, so to speak, was taking place, his eyes naturally turned themselves. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Little Popo; names that seemed to belong to some sordid farce acted in front of a sinister back-cloth. ❋ Unknown (1902)
We passed lovely old cottages, which in the strange white light of our Bleriots looked flat, as stage scenery, against that wide-stretched "back-cloth" of inky velvet. ❋ Unknown (1901)
[Going to where, in front of the back-cloth, and apparently among its apple trees, lies the counterfeitment of a mossy boulder; he puts his foot on it] If, you don't put too much weight on it, sir. ❋ John Galsworthy (1900)
Bat, who had employed it as a back-cloth to one of his own dramas, dismissed it as a thing used and emptied, but Woodhouse expressed my feelings when he said: 'Is that all -- after all we've done?' ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
