pythoness

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Against this doom Genevi�ve Tabouis, ex-political pythoness of Paris' Leftist L'Oeuvre, for seven years waged a one-woman struggle, of which these memoirs are a record.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Watson, William Davy

She sprung to her feet—she had been kneeling all this time—and confronted him like a Saxon pythoness.

From The Baronet's Bride by Fleming, May Agnes

The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave

Seated in a shadowed chamber he poured out his artless tale to the pythoness, of course concealing all names.

From Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch by Haggard, Henry Rider