We stood in awe as the curtain of water descended from 300 feet above us, into the pool at our feet.

Then a black curtain descended over her eyes.

A slow black curtain descends on the living and the dead.

"Since they took Ahmed, it's like a black curtain descended on the family," she said.

But there was no action on the measure in either house, and a curtain of silence has descended between the Governor's office and the commission.

Huge, fringed curtains descended quickly, then rose again as Mac blinked.

As Hand read them, a scarlet curtain of anger descended in front of his eyes.

It was as though a curtain in Graciela's mind suddenly descended.

As the curtain descended, another blinding flash filled the room.

Instead, the curtain rose on a large basket of yellow flowers and then descended slowly.