pythoness
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The pythoness, seated on her tripod, rises slowly from it.
From Back to Methuselah by Bernard Shaw
Some submit to it painfully, striving against it just like the ancient pythoness at the time of giving her oracle.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
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
Thereupon ensued a hideous war; a yelling as of the evil demons with which the pythoness pretended to be familiar; unintelligible to vulgar ears; requiring an interpreter from the oyster-quays.
From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson
The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.
From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Gustave Flaubert
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