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

To natural madness, to poetry and the other gifts allied to it, to prophecy like that of the Delphic pythoness, he has to add, fourthly, the "enthusiasm of the ideas."

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter

The pythoness, seated on her tripod, rises slowly from it.

From Back to Methuselah by Shaw, Bernard

The scene in the glen, the image of the unprepossessing and mysterious pythoness, and the substance and manner of the sinister warning she communicated, were indeed fixed in her memory ineffaceably.

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

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)