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

"Humph!" thought I to myself; "where is the grand indignant pythoness, with the unspeakable wrath and menace in her countenance, whom I saw when I first entered the room?"

From The Leavenworth Case by Green, Anna Katharine

The pythoness, or priestess of Apollo, at his approach, hailed him as king of Corinth.

From Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

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)

However, don't look like the pythoness in her fury, Ginty; a joke is a joke; and here's that he may be whatever you wish him!

From The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William