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

Thereupon ensued a hideous war; a yelling as of the evil demons with which the pythoness pretended to be familiar; unintelligible to vulgar ears; requiring an interpreter from the oyster-quays.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy

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

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

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

"Well, then," said Dorothy resignedly, drawing the golden head of the pythoness down until the small, pink ear was level with her lips, "if you must know, let me whisper."

From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry