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 looked like a mad thing—like a crazed pythoness.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

Hurriedly withdrawing her gaze from her cousin, she lifted her face to the jury, and I saw a gleam pass over it which brought back my early fancy of the pythoness.

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

Or the convulsion of the pythoness on the tripod?

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard