dresses
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She was no longer a queen, but one of those awful druidesses who rejoiced in human sacrifices, and unrolled the pages of the Future by studying the records of the Past.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various
I no longer beheld a queen, but rather one of those ancient druidesses to whom human lives are sacrificed; who unroll the pages of the future and exhume the teachings of the past.
From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
Here nine druidesses used to sell arrows to sailors to charm away storms.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
Gaul had her druidesses and Rome her vestals.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
There was gossip, though it be but legend, of the druidesses, of the muses as well.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar