pythoness
Example Sentences
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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
She sat convulsed with fury and violation, speechless, like a stricken pythoness of the Greek oracle.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
Not a trace of the sacred madness that uplifted the Delphian pythoness or provoked the delirious visions of a Jeremiah or an Ezekiel!
From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice
There was a break, as if the pythoness had uttered the oracle, and now the woman went on, in a rhapsody-wearied voice: 'And you see, Rupert isn't this, he isn't.
From Women in Love by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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
