He has called up the whole world in an amphitheatre to see a girl laugh him to scorn.
Walking over ruins: at night: the arches of the solemn black amphitheatre pouring moonlight on us--the moonlight of Italy!
The bridge is finely situated in a grand amphitheatre surrounded by mountains.
A grand amphitheatre of towering hills surrounds the broad flats where the Lackawaxen brings its ample flow of dark amber-colored waters out of the hemlock forests and swamps of Wayne County to this picturesque spot.
Jerusalem, a monument of Rome's best period, the ruined baths erected by this same emperor, and the great amphitheatre and ruins of the temple of Vespasian.
The amphitheatre alone was, perhaps characteristically, a building of purely Roman origin.
The only stone predecessor to the great Flavian amphitheatre was a smaller building in the Campus Martius, the work of Statilius Taurus in 30 B.
The first amphitheatre at Rome was that constructed by C.
It occupies a cup of the hills, is backed by a dark amphitheatre of evergreen trees, and looks across a narrow valley.
But as they trended towards the edge of the cliffs the barking grew louder, and was recognisably 'Dolph's; and so they came to a wide shelving amphitheatre of turf overgrown with furze and blackthorn.
Originally it was probably a natural subsidence, strengthened by artificial earthworks; and whatever its first use may have been, it became a popular amphitheatre for public performance of miracle-plays.
For representing it they raise an earthen amphitheatre in some open field, leaving the diameter of the enclosed plain some forty or fifty feet.
They killed him in the amphitheatre yonder at Berytus six months ago," and the poor woman began to sob.
Surely that old bishop of yours who preached in the amphitheatre this morning, must have had a hint of what was coming, from his familiar spirit; or perhaps he saw the owl and guessed its errand.
They died," said Nehushta sadly, "the father in the amphitheatre at Berytus by command of the first Agrippa, and the mother when her child was born.
Lift one finger against her and I will hale you into the amphitheatre at Rome, there yourself to be slaughtered by gladiators, or to be torn by lions.
The captives in the prison that was set upon a little hill, a frowning building of brown stone, divided into courts and surrounded by a high wall and a ditch, could hear the workmen at their labours in the amphitheatre below.
Here a guard of soldiers was waiting to receive them, and under their escort they threaded the narrow, darkling streets till they came to that door of the amphitheatre which was used by those who were to take part in the games.
That the people had these cruel sports, is shown by the amphitheatre which remains to this day; and the greatest number of skeletons in any one spot was thirty-six, in a building for the training of gladiators.
The pavilion of the chief, facing the sunset, was raised in the arena of an amphitheatre cut out of the solid rock and almost the whole of the seats of which were entire.
This vast amphitheatre is of an elliptical shape, which gives it great powers of resistance.
The amphitheatreof Pompeii does not differ in any particular from other Roman buildings of the same kind.
They are about two days' journey from Shiraz, on a rising ground, in a plain, surrounded by an amphitheatre of mountains.
On our way to Baiae we had stopped to see the Lake Avernus, no longer terrible to behold, and the amphitheatre of Cumae, now grown over with greensward, and fringed with garden stuff.
The amphitheatre at Pozzuoli is the most interesting in Italy after the Coliseum.
The amphitheatre (lately built by Coenonica) is highly magnificent, and of immense proportions, chiefly appropriated to the celebration of the naumachia, or naval tournament.
A few miles before we entered Beauvoisin (which divides Dauphiny from Savoy), a very grand amphitheatre of the Savoy mountains rose suddenly upon us.
An amphitheatre of hills shuts in the distant scene.
In the town are scanty remains of an amphitheatre and theatre: near the church of La Trinità , higher up, are remains of a large reservoir.
Inscriptions name six gates of the town: and there are considerable remains of antiquity, especially of an amphitheatre and theatre, of a supposed temple, and other edifices.
Yalta itself is a tiny village, lying close to the sea, and surrounded by, almost buried in, a magnificent amphitheatre of mountains.
In the amphitheatre and the lecture-room, the first object of attention is the professor and the lecturer.
In 1768, Antoine Petit began his anatomical lectures in the great amphitheatre of the Jardin du Roi; and the press to hear him was so great, that not only all the seats were occupied, but the very window-ledges were crowded.
Our way led due east up theamphitheatre and toward Mount Brewer, as we had named the great pyramidal peak.
West of us stretched the Mount Brewer wall with its succession of smooth precipices and amphitheatre ridges.
From the place where the priests halted was a kind of amphitheatre with five broad platforms by which it was possible to pass along the whole court or to descend to the bottom.
Pentuer went to the middle of the amphitheatre and clapped his hands.
But the prince, with a bluish flush on his cheeks, returned to the door by which actors entered the arena, and amid plaudits of the audience left the amphitheatre with a feeling of deep humiliation.
When the viceroy appeared in his box, the Asiatics and Egyptians present in the amphitheatre gave forth a mighty shout.
The men with darts surrounded the bull again, and began to irritate the animal; but now servants of the amphitheatre rushed to the arena to carry off the wounded man, who was groaning.
Pentuer went down along the steps of the amphitheatre to the court, and after him went the prince, the high priests, Mefres and the others.
In the amphitheatre I saw a Chaldean suspended in the air.
Amongst others was a huge crucifix, a white cross, several thousand yards in length, which you might have thought had been thrown across the amphitheatre from one end to the other.
Then the vast amphitheatre of slopes and hills and mountains surged aloft, ascended upon all sides, crests following crests, until they faded away in the far blue atmosphere.
Yes; a city of the dead," said the doctor, sweeping the sides of the amphitheatrewith his glass.
It was yet early when two persons, quitting the Curia Hostilia at the foot of the Coelian Hill, took their way past the magnificent Flavian Amphitheatre towards the Sacra Via.
I hope ere long to see the arena of the amphitheatre again filled with the atheists, struggling unarmed against the wild beasts let in on them, to tear them limb from limb.
As I returned from the observation post I passed through a great natural amphitheatre in a sort of mountain.
Here the bulls are seen in the yard attached to the amphitheatre in which, to-morrow, they are to combat and die.
The remark of Seneca, that the world had seen as many examples of courage in gladiators of the Roman amphitheatre as in the Catos and Scipios, may be truly applied to the gallant Matadors of Spain.
The subject is the office where tickets for the amphitheatre are sold.
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