The "Aethiopis" thus included the coming of the Amazon Penthesilea to help the Trojans after the fall of Hector and her death, the similar arrival and fall of the Aethiopian Memnon, the death of Achilles under the arrow of Paris, and the dispute between Odysseus and Aias for the arms of Achilles.

"That's the Amazon river in flood time in South America.

Above us floated products of all kinds, heaped up among these brownish plants; trunks of trees torn from the Andes or the Rocky Mountains, and floated by the Amazon or the Mississippi; numerous wrecks, remains of keels, or ships' bottoms, side-planks stove in, and so weighted with shells and barnacles that they could not again rise to the surface.

well, because everyone is going: and besides- I am not Joan of Arc or an Amazon ."

No longer bore this Amazon the shameful flight of her party.

"You are aware--or probably, in this half-educated age, you are not aware--that the country round some parts of the Amazon is still only partially explored, and that a great number of tributaries, some of them entirely uncharted, run into the main river.

Anything more exquisite than her appearance, in her purple habit, with her Amazon 's cap of black velvet placed gracefully above the long curls that kissed her cheek and floated to her shoulders, can scarcely be imagined: and it was thus she would enter the rustic building, and glide through the dazzled ranks of the village children.

"You are a perfect Amazon , Eugenie!" And the two young girls began to heap into a trunk all the things they thought they should require.

In a week from that day, her majesty's ship Amazon sailed for North America.

Olivia would be drawn as an amazon , sitting upon a bank of flowers, dressed in a green Joseph,* richly laced with gold, and a whip in her hand.

Instead of wandering on down the Amazons until she reached some sulphurous tropical port, where one had to lie within doors all day beating off insects with a fan, the sensible thing to do surely was to spend the season with them in their villa by the seaside, where among other advantages Mrs.