pythoness
Example Sentences
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Or the convulsion of the pythoness on the tripod?
From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw
And the young lady, after smilingly chiding her for her simple proceeding, taught her to smile also at the ill words of the pythoness.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
"Humph!" thought I to myself; "where is the grand indignant pythoness, with the unspeakable wrath and menace in her countenance, whom I saw when I first entered the room?"
From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
It can readily be imagined that, the presence of this pythoness does not tend to restore the confidence which has become somewhat shaken between the husband and wife.
From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Alys Hallard
However, don't look like the pythoness in her fury, Ginty; a joke is a joke; and here's that he may be whatever you wish him!
From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
