Synonyms
Examples for "hemicycle"
Examples for "hemicycle"
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This round room with tiered seating is known as the hemicycle.
2
Crossing the hemicycle, the old man reached an immense porch leading to the peristyle.
3
So they descended within the hemicycle of hills.
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The vast hemicycle was a compact mass of cheering deputies, all waving aloft in their hands papers and handkerchiefs.
5
Basil pulled away the trailing leafage from a marble hemicycle, and, having spread his cloak upon it, begged tremorously that Veranilda would rest.
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We drew up chairs and sat in a semicircle in the window.
2
In this latter circle, the semicircle from the light took 5 hrs.
3
The Siner home was a three-room shanty about midway in the semicircle.
4
He had a row in a semicircle in front of his cave.
5
The French and Patriot forces had Cornwallis enclosed in a large semicircle.
6
The army of monks extended, in three ranks, in an immense semicircle.
7
He looked up, and saw a considerable crowd collected in a semicircle.
8
Jeff had set up a half-dozen chairs in a semicircle facing west.
9
On either side of the wall the curb formed a large semicircle.
10
She hastily lowered the notes, stepped out of the semicircle, and said:
11
The plan is a parallelogram, with a semicircle at the further end.
12
They were slumping in a semicircle; rubber-legged, breathing heavily and barely conscious.
13
They lingered over the semicircle of bayonets and rested fondly on musket-racks.
14
Each man spread a little semicircle of shells in front of him.
15
The semicircle encloses a smooth-shaven lawn of which I am vastly proud.
16
They're already swaying in a semicircle, four of them, five of them.
