Ampitheatres

Adaptations like Peake's had therefore to include a good deal of music, pantomime, and spectacle to permit their staging in these alternative theatrical venuessome of which were ampitheatres and even equestrian arenas ❋ Unknown (2008)

I visited Plovdiv, which is kind of like Rome, has 7 hills, an old section with cobble stones and ancient ampitheatres and sections the old city fortification walls and a gate. ❋ Eric Wiley (2004)

The mountain peaks surrounding the palace, looking like great petrified waves, the black depths among the cliffs, the immensity of the blue sky, the rising sun, and the gloomy valley of the abyss, filled the soul of Antipas with a vague unrest; he felt an overwhelming sense of oppression at the sight of the desert, whose uneven piles of sand suggested crumbling ampitheatres or ruined palaces. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When Rome was mistress of the world, and her barbarian captives were butchered to make holidays, in the vast ampitheatres where these brutal exhibitions took place, women composed a large percentage of the audiences that assembled there to gloat over the sight of human blood. ❋ Unknown (1863)

Ocean expands at your feet like a carpet; the mountains resemble ampitheatres; heaven's ether is above them like the arching folds of a stage curtain. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)