1 You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater.
2 It was all in one great room, like a circus amphitheater, with a gallery for visitors running over the center.
3 The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him and brightly lit up the enormous panorama which, rising like an amphitheater, extended before him in the clear rarefied atmosphere.
4 From above on the left, bisecting that amphitheater, wound the Smolensk highroad, passing through a village with a white church some five hundred paces in front of the knoll and below it.