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And Egypt continues - in light of your overt Israel support - to refuse to give you any assistance in calming the Israeli-Palestinian tensions, despite your repeated back-scene requests to Cairo.

Gerald Posner: An Open Letter to the President 2008

Obviously, they have to be able to retain certain things to be sure they've got the right people, to appropriately conduct the back-scene investigation.

CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2002 2002

The _flat_ or back-scene, suddenly lighted up from behind, presented, as a transparency, that terrible collection of devils which you may have witnessed in

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

I was comfortable; my _cigarritos_ lay within reach; my tent gave shade enough; and through the flapway I found myself watching a mighty pretty comedy, with the rock of Rueda for its back-scene.

The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Another, upon which the interior of an impossible palace had been delineated in a bewildering perspective of red and blue and yellow paint-smudges, served as a general back-scene for the performance.

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

The traces of the row of columns which formed the scene -- the permanent back-scene -- remain; two marble pillars -- I just mentioned them -- are upright, with a fragment of their entablature.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885

The dimmest back-scene at the opera, when the tenor is singing his sweetest, seems hardly to belong to a world more detached from responsibility.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

The traces of the row of columns which formed the scene -- the permanent back-scene -- remain; two marble pillars -- I just mentioned them -- are upright, with a fragment of their entablature.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

The back-scene represented the Emperor, seated, clad in a long triumphal robe.

The Court of the Empress Josephine Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867

For the rest, Imogine, who now and then talks deliriously, but who is always light-headed as far as her gown and hair can make her so, wanders about in dark woods with cavern-rocks and precipices in the back-scene; and a number of mute dramatis personae move in and out continually, for whose presence, there is always at least this reason, that they afford something to be seen, by that very large part of a

Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803