The clouds hung low around the mountain base and truncated the more distant peaks, while the valley below was a bright contrast in wet, tender green.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Other spires were Gothic, and others truncated, but the temples that gave character to the whole were those of Byzantine domes.
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
Still, it was a mesh of streets, out of which you would in vain have sought your way if you had been caught in it alone; though it is mostly so level that if you had mounted a truncated column almost anywhere you could have looked over the labyrinth to its verge.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells