It was a bear-pit: people pouring beer on the acts, paper aeroplanes flying around. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They hung over the railing of the bear-pit, shivering at the huge and lonely denizen, and passed quickly on to ten minutes of laughter at the monkey cage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I can understand why the Catalans of Perpignan want to play in their capital but having to give up the bear-pit advantage they get from the Stade Aimé-Giral may just tip the scales too far while Toulouse seem to be able to play anywhere when the occasion demands. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Perhaps that was understandable with three of the first-choice back four out but it did seem a waste of the bear-pit atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2011)
I cannot think of any of our Prime Ministers of the television age who has presented such a sorry and sad picture in the weekly bear-pit that is PMQs. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Clearly, we're drinking in the Flight of Fancy Saloon here, but while we're at it, let's imagine a politics in which it actually became difficult to pass legislation at all and parliament became a baying bear-pit which actually reflected the disputatious, bloody-minded, frequently absurd voters that elect the damn thing in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The method, developed by Klein Dytham Architects in Tokyo puts twelve speakers in a bear-pit theatre with only 20 slides for 20 seconds each for a six minute and 20 second total. ❋ Unknown (2006)
So of course, Canadians have their own words and Barber has a section on each: Peace, Order and Good Government (drop the writ and bear-pit session); weather is a subsection in the chapter A Country With Too Much Geography; and For the Love of the Game (pond hockey and puckster). ❋ Unknown (2007)
From the stone terrace above the bear-pit his son and his two grandchildren came hastening down when they saw old Jolyon coming, and led him away towards the lion-house. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Then it was over to the fighters, where they did a quickie bear-pit tourney. ❋ Brynpobydd (2004)
There is a bear-pit at the end of the double row of cages, and if we go up on the top and look down we shall see the two brown bears who climb up a pole to get buns. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
"I certainly do; and you just fell into the bear-pit I had ready for you." ❋ James H. Rawlinson (N/A)
They will live contentedly in a bear-pit, or even if chained up, and as most of you know, they like peanuts and pop-corn well enough to beg for them. ❋ Ella M. Sexton (N/A)
His wringing and biting his paws reminded us of many scenes out of a bear-pit. ❋ Various (N/A)
Palace, and has lived in an aviary till the beginning of last month, when he was put into his new bear-pit. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
Crystal Palace, and has lived in an aviary till the beginning of last month, when he was put into his new bear-pit. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
After the play the captain went to see the bear-baiting in the bear-pit hard by, but the two young people preferred a trip on the river as far as Chelsea. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)
The mass of subalterns flows down the first flight of stairs to the square gallery which overlooks the dining saloon, like railings looking down into a bear-pit. ❋ Ernest Raymond (1931)
[Let's not] go in that pub, [the windows] look like they haven't been cleaned for 10 years and it's full of [old men]. Must be a bear pit. ❋ B_uk (2018)
"God, [Michael], what [bear pits] you have [this morning]!" ❋ Lovely Woodnymph (2008)
