Word: semi-circular
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...admit a coach with men on top and allow the teams to pass directly from the barges to their rooms. The first floor is lighted by six windows each about ten feet square, the second receives its light from eight large windows above each one of which is a semi-circular bas relief. The front of the building contains eight oblong windows situated near the top while above these runs a cornice or ornamental design. The height of the building will be about eighty feet...
...this theatre was not known. The greatest share of the credit of its discovery and subse quent excavation is due to the Germans. The theatre is at the southeastern extremity of the Acropolis. It was constructed on the plan employed in all Greek theatres; the seats rose in semi-circular tiers from the orchestra as a converging point, and at the back of the orchestra, facing the seats was the building set apart for the actors. The dimensions of the theatre were very large; it would doubtless accomodate the whole body of Athenian citizens...
...orchestra was semi-circular in form, and was paved with diamond or rhomboidal shaped stones. The seats ascended in curves one above another, and are divided by stairways into wedge shaped divisions. The outer row of seats was about three hundred feet from the orchestra and had an actual elevation of one hundred feet above it. The front row of seats are of solid Pentelic marble and have backs. The rows immediately behind them are not cut out of the solid rock as they are higher up, but are made of limestone from the Peiraeus. The theatre must have once...
...students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons are fond of getting the end seats in the lecture-room on the top floor of the building. Each of the semi-circular benches is covered with two long crimson cushions, and the practice is to pull one of the cushions toward an end seat, and turn a part of it under so as to make a pillow for the weary medical head...
...room was indispensable. Mr. Van Brunt, of Boston, who had the advantage of experience in remodeling the Harvard library building, was employed as the architect, and the result is probably in many respects the most interesting university library building in the country. The predominant feature of it is the semi-circular reading-room. This room is admirably lighted by a continuous row of twenty-two windows near the ceiling. The reading desks are ranged in semi-circular lines and afford accommodations for 212 readers. The reading-room is separated from the book-room by the main corridor and delivery desk...