A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain

Usage examples of cirque.

A report was spread that the prince was to land at La Cirque and make his entry into Alca on a green horse.

Madame Svengali intends to make her first appearance in Paris that very evening, at nine punctually, in the Cirque des Bashibazoucks, Rue St.

Beneath their feet precipices fell suddenly away from a giddy verge, sweeping round in a grand cirque above which the mountain rose like some Tartarian fortress, ponderous, cruel as the sea and sad, scarred and gashed with great lines of cleavage as though the face of the mountain had been slashed away by the axe-stroke of a giant.

They had houses like the one in the Rue du Cirque, mistresses more expensive than Mme.

Louveciennes, I called in the Rue du Cirque, where I saw one Zelie Cadelle.

Rue du Cirque, the commissary of police could not understand the cause of their agitation.

Zelie was precisely the same woman whom they had found in the Rue du Cirque, in that sumptuous mansion where Vincent Favoral, under the simple name of Vincent, had been living, according to the neighbors, in such a princely style.

Fortin who was despatched to the Rue du Cirque, and who went off muttering, though he had received five francs to take a carriage, and five francs for his trouble.

Favoral was so anxious to spare when he put you in the Rue du Cirque house.

She made use of our house in the Rue du Cirque for purposes of dissipation for herself and her daughter Cesarine.

Scott heard an intense rumbling above him and looked up in time to see enormous chunks of ice fall from the buttresses surrounding the cirque, avalanching down into the basin, scattering the Invid Troopers and burying the Cyclones and Veritechs under tons of crystalline snow.

The moths aggregated in glacial cirques on talus right below steeper headwalls.

The aggregations of the cutworm moths, and so the feeding grounds of the bears, were usually at the head of the cirques below the massifs.

The temperature was far below zero and they were faced with a breath-takingly beautiful but hazardous sight as clouds closed in almost all views below them, even of the slight dips, valleys, and cirques, leaving only the points of the highest peaks popping up into a brilliant, almost blinding sun.

And then the night after that, after some of them had spent the day out fell running, exploring high basins in his quest to see as much of the land as he could, they might stay out to sleep in a little survival tent, camping in one of the high cirques east of the city, heating a meal in the dusk as stars popped out everywhere in the purple sky, and the alpine flowers faded away into the basin of rock that held them all, as if in the palm of a giant hand.