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

“Carriages without horses shall go,” is the “prophecy” attributed to that mythical fifteenth century pythoness, Mother Shipton; really the ex post facto forgery of Charles Hindley, the second-hand bookseller, in 1862.

From The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

In the enigmatic heart of its impenetrable iris cold fire lived, cold passionless flames leaped and died and leaped again like the sorcerous fire of a pythoness.

From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph

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)

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