On a knoll in the background, a little round temple with tuscan columns and a shining green roof looked solemnly out of its dark surrounding cypresses.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann
Hence the rapture with which Pliny escapes to the stillness of the Laurentine pine woods, or the pure cold breezes that blew from the Apennines over his tuscan seat.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Then I might have been enjoying life in my villa among the tuscan hills with my daughter, instead of being exposed at any moment to march with the Legion against the savage mountaineers of the west.
"Beric the Briton A Story of the Roman Invasion"
G. A. Henty