Amphitheatre

The word Amphitheatre was first applied to a wooden building erected by Caesar.

Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell

A series of shows free to the public "It's the new face of the music industry," she acknowledges, along with three house concerts on this leg, have helped to pay the bills along the way, along with more traditional dates such as headlining at highly respected Swallow Hill in Denver or opening for Hot Tuna at Mishawaka Amphitheatre.

Michael Bialas: Shannon McNally Celebrates Her Spirit of Independence Days Michael Bialas 2011

The Amphitheatre was a huge circular enclosure, with a notch at opposite extremities of its diameter north and south.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

The Amphitheatre was a huge circular enclosure, with a notch at opposite extremities of its diameter north and south.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

I stopped at Verona to see the Amphitheatre, which is only perfect in the inside, and has been kept so by repeated repairs.

The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829

The Amphitheatre is a water-worn chasm inside 60-metre tall cliffs, accessed only by a narrow crevice.

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Witness his explanation of the Italian mode of reckoning the hours of the day, as growing out of the Italian climate; of the obelisk of Egypt, as growing out of a common natural fracture in the granite parallelopiped in Upper Egypt; of the Doric architecture, and the Gothic; of the Venetian music of the gondolier originating in the habit of the fishers 'wives of the Lido singing to their husbands on the sea; of the Amphitheatre, which is the enclosure of the natural cup of heads that arranges itself round every spectacle in the street; of the coloring of Titian and Paul Veronese, which one may verify in the common daylight in Venice every afternoon; of the Carnival at Rome; of the domestic rural architecture in Italy; and many the like examples.

Uncollected Prose 1832

"Amphitheatre" is the word, for within the great circle, proportioned to it in size and magnificence, dwarfing all other objects, stands the veritable arena where our public gladiators and wild beasts hold their combats.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

a special offering to music lovers as the Amphitheatre will be the only venue in North America where this conductor and orchestra will play this repertory.

BONJOUR L'ESTONIE 2010

They had been walking rapidly, and now they were reaching the spot known as the "Amphitheatre," that same spot where Owen Davies had proposed to

Beatrice Henry Rider Haggard 1890