Examples from literature

• At length, the officer and the amazon turned their horses' heads on their backward journey. 
• Her appointments, however, were those rather of an amazon, or goddess of the woods. 
• I could not help laughing at the idea of my tall, awkward master, a knight-errant to this queen of the amazons. 
• The first greeting of one amazon to the other is to slap her face. 
• There was here another laugh at the expense of the hero who had received this amazon's assistance.