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Camilla

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Camilla

Volscian woman and warrior, enemy of Aeneas and ally of Turnus in Virgil's Aeneid. Her father, fleeing his enemies in Privernum, fastened the baby Camilla to a javelin and threw her across the River Amasenus to safety.
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Miss Pocket laughed, and Camilla laughed and said (checking a yawn), "The idea
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
"It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda"; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.
Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context
And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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