| The curtain lecture that followed was of unusual virulence, and in the midst of it he fell asleep. |
| Meanwhile the elder wife was eating her heart with vexation and forming resolutions to give her husband a curtain lecture. |
| The tintinnabulations of the wife's curtain lecture are too precious to the enraptured husband to be shared with other ears. |
| The curtain lecture was followed next day by a refusal to allow Mr. Sheridan to have the horses till the account was settled. |
| Excellent quotation, but remember that the curtain lecture is on the advantages of poverty, as well as the true provenance of gentility. |
| She seemed to me to be more forward than ever that morning, and I felt a suspicion that I was going to get a curtain lecture. |
