Hemicycle

Their courtly coffins are ranged in a kind of hemicycle, with the little coffins of the children that died before they came to the knowledge of their greatness. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

With a six-story spiraling ramp, the Guggenheim is a hallmark example of "hemicycle" design. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a very short voting list (they are all in the 'hemicycle' voting on it as I write this), mostly concerning foreign affairs, so UKIP decided to abstain on most of the issues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have, once again, been thrown out of the hemicycle because I am a girl who is not pro the EU. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The head of the European Parliament security refusing to let the peaceful protest anywhere near the hemicycle ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I was leading three large chickens along towards the hemicycle. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anyway, further to moans and whining from MEPs like Archbishop Richard Corbett, smuggly sitting in the hemicycle at the moment having played his part in handing over yet more of our sovereignty, here is why Roll Call Votes cost money: 1. Figures provided by the Printing Unit printing of provisional version in hard copy: ❋ Unknown (2008)

His colleague came along and said, you don't have a hemicycle badge so you have to get out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1837 Delaroche received the commission for the great picture, 27 metres long, in the hemicycle of the award theatre of the École des Beaux Arts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

All of the discourses will be worth following, of course, but it will be interesting to read the address to the French Bishops at the hemicycle on Sunday. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

Last month the Green group were allowed people dressed up on the bridges to the hemicycle. ❋ Unknown (2008)