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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).

Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 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.

Within a Budding Grove 2003

It was like a worn-out back-cloth in some provincial theatre.

Maigret has Scruples Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1958

Suddenly I saw it-a tiny flare of light against the vast yellow back-cloth of Jupiter.

Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956

Suddenly I saw it-a tiny flare of light against the vast yellow back-cloth of Jupiter.

Reach for Tomorrow 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.

Five Go Down To The Sea 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.

Five Go Down To The Sea 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.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919 Various

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.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

There was life, swarming life, everywhere, in the corners, behind the back-cloth.

The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne