amphitheatrical
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Under his guidance, Pete Dye produced the Stadium Course, with enormous natural grass spectator mounds that could accommodate thousands in amphitheatrical settings around the closing holes of each nine.
From Golf Digest • Oct. 13, 2010
The congressmen met for a first get-together session in Harvard's Memorial Hall's fusty, amphitheatrical Sanders Theatre, with twilight filtering on them through stained glass.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gladiators rose from the table in respect to three gallants known to be among the gayest and richest youths of Pompeii, and whose voices were therefore the dispensers of amphitheatrical reputation.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
Richly wooded hills rose towering above each other with amphitheatrical effect; and behind the verdant panorama were the blue outlines of pinnacles of naked rocks.
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by Reynolds, George W. M. (George William MacArthur)
Saint Lucia is only a monstrous silhouette; all its billowing hills, its volcanic bays, its amphitheatrical valleys, turn black as ebony.
From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio
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