amphitheatrically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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This pit or salle de spectacle was, as he himself informs us, arranged amphitheatrically, while above were galleries divided into separate boxes, each approached by a different staircase and entered by a different door.
From The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 1 by Julia Pardoe
After six days laborious ascent of several mountains, placed amphitheatrically, one above another, we at length reached the famous plateau, the most elevated point, perhaps, on the earth’s surface.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
Embassadors, ministers, magistrates, and the members of the two councils were assembled on seats ranged amphitheatrically around.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
The seats rise amphitheatrically and are symmetrically enclosed by a row of boxes.
From Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Louis Nohl
Along the sunny bank of the limpid stream she sped;—on, on toward a forest that bounded the valley at the further end, and rose amphitheatrically up toward the regions of the mountains!
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
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