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

It can readily be imagined that, the presence of this pythoness does not tend to restore the confidence which has become somewhat shaken between the husband and wife.

From George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings by Hallard, Alys

Or the convulsion of the pythoness on the tripod?

From Getting Married by Shaw, Bernard

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

The pythoness, gone astray, is found there no longer.

From The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul by Flaubert, Gustave