In some way or other the people in charge of the amphitheater got possession of her, and I heard that she was to figure in the games at an approaching great occasion.

"Now followed one of the most exciting chases ever known in the history of the Roman amphitheater.

A little door was opened in the side of the amphitheater; she shot through it, and it was closed almost in the face of the panting and furious bear.

Itobad recovered himself, but with so bad a grace that the whole amphitheater burst out a-laughing.

All the amphitheater cried out, "Victory to the white knight!" Otamus rises in a violent passion, and draws his sword; Zadig leaps from his horse with his saber in his hand.

The amphitheater was almost empty when Zadig awoke; he sought for his arms, but could find none but the green armor.

The people that still remained in the amphitheater and the circus received him with hoots and hisses.

The whole idea of these first theaters, according to De Witt, was like that of the Roman amphitheater; and the resemblance was heightened by the fact that, when no play was on the boards, the stage might be taken away and the pit given over to bull and bear baiting.

field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon; commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope.

Arena N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c (playhouse) 599; amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso [Sp.], turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard^, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars^; campus [U.S.].

Arena N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c (playhouse) 599; amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso [Sp.], turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard^, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars^; campus [U.S.].

Liege, squatted in the natural amphitheater below, practically escaped the fire of the big guns.

anfiteatro, m., amphitheater.

The description of "the odd-looking personages playing at nine-pins" whom he finds on entering the amphitheater, is a perfect picture in words; for the truly great writer is a painter of pictures quite as much as the great artist.

On beyond this semi-circle the horizon was bounded by an amphitheater of rugged and gloomy mountains.

Gavarnie is a very ordinary village, commanding a view of the amphitheater we are come to see.

After you have left it, it is still necessary to go three miles through a melancholy plain, half buried in sand by the winter inundations; the waters of the Gave are muddy and dull; a cold wind whistles from the amphitheater; the glaciers, strewn with mud and stones, are stuck to the declivity like patches of dirty plaster.

You arm yourself with a stout stick, and descend upon the glaciers of the amphitheater.

A wall of granite crowned with snow hollows itself before us in a gigantic amphitheater.

This amphitheater is twelve hundred feet high, nearly three miles in circumference, three tiers of perpendicular walls, and in each tier thousands of steps.

The good tourists get fatigued, stop ordinarily at the inn, take a substantial dinner, have a chair brought to the door, and digest while looking at the amphitheater, which from there appears about as high as a house.

We came out in the notch of the great amphitheater or curve we had named the Bay, and I saw again the downward slope, the bold steps, the color and depth below.

And this mystic region sloped and slanted to a great amphitheater that was walled on the opposite side by a mountain of bare earth, of every hue, and of a thousand ribbed and scalloped surfaces.

Between these great corners of the curve climbed ridges of gray and heliotrope and amber, to meet wonderful veins of greengreen as the sea in sunlightand tracery of whiteand on the bold face of this amphitheater, high up, stood out a zigzag belt of dull red, the stain of which had run down to tinge the other hues.

On my way out of this amphitheater a hard wind swooped down over the slopes, tearing up the colored dust in sheets and clouds.