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

Only a mind in a quasi-delirious state, to be likened to that of the pythoness on the tripod, could have evolved the Rime of Redemption 345 or Thorgerda 346.

From The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Wright, Thomas

It can readily be imagined that, the presence of this pythoness does not tend to restore the confidence which has become somewhat shaken between the husband and wife.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

Some submit to it painfully, striving against it just like the ancient pythoness at the time of giving her oracle.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

The scene in the glen, the image of the unprepossessing and mysterious pythoness, and the substance and manner of the sinister warning she communicated, were indeed fixed in her memory ineffaceably.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various