Here he was in his element, and greatly her superior in spite of her Amazonian skill.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
King Charles, whose splendid looks have entered, through the genius of Van Dyck, into the heritage of the nation, played his part with the external dignity in which he was never lacking; while his wife displayed her still abundant charms to great advantage in an "Amazonian habit of carnation, embroidered with silver, with a plumed Helme and a Bandricke with an antique Sword hanging by her side, all as rich as might be."
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
The main orographical feature of non-Amazonian Brazil is the great mountain system which extends uninterruptedly from the northern coast through the whole country.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson