pythoness

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Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Genevi�ve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pythoness, Apollo’s priestess and prophetess, had found him one morning, a little baby, lying on the temple stairway, and had brought him up as tenderly as a mother.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In these paroxysms, Joanna raved like an ancient Pythoness whirling on her tripod, and to just about the same purpose.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)

Thus Juliet pours forth her love like a muse in a rapture: Constance raves in her sorrow like a Pythoness possessed with the spirit of pain.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

She sprang off the bed, and stood erect, and looked a Saxon Pythoness: golden hair streaming down her back, and gray eyes gleaming with fury.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various