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

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

Or the convulsion of the pythoness on the tripod?

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard

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)

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