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

To natural madness, to poetry and the other gifts allied to it, to prophecy like that of the Delphic pythoness, he has to add, fourthly, the "enthusiasm of the ideas."

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter

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

One morning after Senator Hanway had departed, Dorothy took Richard across to meet the blonde pythoness.

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry

She looked like a mad thing—like a crazed pythoness.

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