How To Use amphitheatrical In A Sentence
- About five miles distant in front another line of cliff extends, which thus appears completely to encircle the valley; and hence the name of bay is justified, as applied to this grand amphitheatrical depression. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- Perhaps it was the queer amphitheatrical effect of this setting that connected up some whimsical train of thought in Maynard's brain. Uncanny Tales
- Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges. Moby Dick; or the Whale
- The first impression on seeing the correspondence of the horizontal strata on each side of these valleys and great amphitheatrical depressions, is that they have been hollowed out, like other valleys, by the action of water; but when one reflects on the enormous amount of stone which on this view must have been removed through mere gorges or chasms, one is led to ask whether these spaces may not have subsided. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- His father not being probably a chief of the tribe, was a freeman and peer among his fellows, possessing like them a small, amphitheatrical house, the husband of but one wife, owning Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia
- On either side of the stream and up the opposite hillsides repose the white dwellings of the lamas, rising terrace above terrace in amphitheatrical order. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
- A _new Chapel_, of novel design, being of an amphitheatrical form, has been recently completed, from the designs of _W. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)
- On again ascending, you catch a fine view of Box Hill, and the amphitheatrical range of opposite hills, with one of the most magnificent _parterres_ in nature. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828
