pythoness
Example Sentences
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Thereafter, Storri was no sooner in the Harley house when, presto! from over the way our pythoness sweeps in.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
To natural madness, to poetry and the other gifts allied to it, to prophecy like that of the Delphic pythoness, he has to add, fourthly, the "enthusiasm of the ideas."
From Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
One morning after Senator Hanway had departed, Dorothy took Richard across to meet the blonde pythoness.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
In the enigmatic heart of its impenetrable iris cold fire lived, cold passionless flames leaped and died and leaped again like the sorcerous fire of a pythoness.
From The Bronze Bell by Louis Joseph Vance
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
