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.    From Wordnik.com.  [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference

To give an idea only of the amphitheatrical entertainments, so repugnant to humanity, would make the most obdurate heart feel with keen sensibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

Greek spires and the minarets of the mosques relieved by the cypresses of the graveyards; the amphitheatrical situation of the whole place, crowned by Mount Pagus with its picturesque ruined castle, and the fine mountain-scenery in the background, -- must impress every visitor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference

There are three theatres: the amphitheatrical Olivier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference

The hall was fitted up with an amphitheatrical descent of seats towards.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blithedale Romance] Reference

The amphitheatrical form of the seats was a great improvement over the chairs on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catalogue of the Members of the Dialectic Society Instituted in the University of North Carolina June 3, 1795, Together With Historical Sketches] Reference

Entering the temple, we beheld an amphitheatrical space, in the middle of which, a great fire was burning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

Imagine a large lawn rising before me in an amphitheatrical shape, and arranged like the pit of a theatre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Robert-Houdin]

His eye caught one lone tree in the centre of an amphitheatrical hollow just visible over the slope of a hill.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Hills] Reference

This is arranged in amphitheatrical form, and seats about five hundred in each of the three sections — parquet, balcony and gallery.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Virginia] Reference

In the high, amphitheatrical Nicolai Hall that afternoon I saw the Duma sitting in permanence, tempestuous, grouping around it all the forces of opposition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead] Reference

The most interesting field of these Swiss mountain falls is a high mountain valley of amphitheatrical form, known as the Diablerets, or the devil's own district.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

Burbage retained the circular amphitheatrical form; being a joiner as well as an actor and manager, he was no doubt his own architect in his new theatrical enterprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10] Reference

Constantinople, like haughty Rome, is built on seven hills -- the houses being so disposed that they do not intercept the view commanded by each on the amphitheatrical acclivities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference

"Publicity," primal requisite of all theatrical and amphitheatrical enterprise thus provided, subsequent arrangements proceeded with a fury of energy which transformed the empty hayloft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

"Publicity," primal requisite of all theatrical and amphitheatrical enterprise thus provided, subsequent arrangements proceeded with a fury of energy which transformed the empty hay-loft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

Toward one side of the amphitheatrical space, perched high upon an elevated dais, sat a white-headed old man with a tomahawk in his hand: earnestly engaged in overseeing the tumult; though not a word did he say.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter XIX] Reference

In these charming amphitheatrical landscapes, their houses, consisting only of roofs resting on stakes, surrounded and shaded by bananas, bread-fruit and cocoa-trees, are scattered at small distances from each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1] Reference

The former is a bright fairy-like stream, gushing out of a small cavern at the foot of a lofty precipice clothed with clinging trees; but the Loue flows out from the bottom of an amphitheatrical rock much more lofty and unbroken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

I would accept in a more stringent sense than it was probably intended to bear, the text of St. James, who wrote at a time when a vast variety and multitude of animals were constantly being forwarded to Rome and to Antioch for amphitheatrical shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference

Spanish euphemism has it), but the first amphitheatrical impression is not wholly dispersed by the sight of the interior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

It is half amphitheatrical in style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell H. Conwell] Reference

Gibbon, amphitheatrical shows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference